On haiku

Sato, Hiroaki, 1942- author, translator.

Book 2018

"Who doesn't love haiku? It is not only America's most popular cultural import from Japan but also our most popular poetic form: instantly recognizable, more mobile than a sonnet, and loved for its simplicity and compression, as well as for its ease of composition. Haiku is an ancient literary form seemingly made for the Twittersphere--Jack Kerouac and Langston Hughes wrote them, Ezra Pound and the Imagists were inspired by them, first-grade stud...

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American poetry Japanese influences

Haiku History and criticism

Haiku Translations into English

Haiku, American History and criticism

Japanese poetry History and criticism

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New Directions paperbook New Directions paperbook ; NDP1426

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ISBN:

9780811227414
0811227413

Description:

x, 294 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Essays. Selections

Notes:

"A New Directions Paperbook Original."--Title page
"First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP) in 2018"--Title page verso
"I would like to thank Jeffrey Yang for patiently, meticulously, editing these essays"--Page ix
A collection of essays, some previously published, some given as speeches by the first president of the American Haiku Society, and including many haiku translated from the Japanese
Some parallel texts in English and Japanese

Contents:

Preface
Note and Acknowledgments
Haiku Talk: From Bashō to J.D. Salinger
What Is Haiku? Serious and Playful Aspects
Haiku and Zen: Association and Dissociation
Hearn, Bickerton, Hubbell: Translation and Definition
White Quacks and Whale Meat: Bashō's Kasen, "The Sea Darkens"
Renga and Assassination: The Cultured Warlord Akechi Mitsuhide
Issa and Hokusai
From Wooden Clogs to the Swimsuit: Women in Haikai and Haiku
The Haiku Reformer Shiki: How Important Is His Haiku?
The "Gun-Smoke" Haiku Poet Hasegawa Sosei
From the 2.26 Incident to the Atomic Bombs: Haiku During the Asia-Pacific War
"Haiku Poet Called a Hooker": Suzuki Shizuko
"Gendai Haiku": What Is It?
Mitsuhashi Takajo: Some Further Explication
Mishima Yukio and Hatano Sōha
Outré Haiku of Katō Ikuya
In the Cancer Ward: Tada Chimako
Receiving a Falconer's Haibun
Through the Looking Glass
Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Names

LCCN:

2018021511

Control Number:

2664918

Other Authors:

Yang, Jeffrey, editor

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