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Haiku and Modernist Poetics

By Yoshinobu Hakutani

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
ISBN
0230616550, 9780230616554
LCC
PL729 .H2964 2009
Open Library ID
OL22853393M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
765 kB (783344 bytes)
Pages
206\206
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics. This study shows that the most pervasive East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was in the reading and writing of haiku in the West. Hakutani roots Y.B Yeats’ symbolism in cross cultural visions; reveals Ezra Pound’s imagism to have originated in haiku; and discusses some of the finest haiku written by Jack Kerouac, Richard Wright, Sonia Sanchez, and James Emanuel.

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