Haiku and modernist poetics

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195 pages 2009

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"Hakutani's study is of interest to those concerned about haiku poetics or writing original haiku as it traces haiku from Basho to its reception in the English-speaking West (Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Kerouac, Wright) to contemporary innovative experiments influenced by aspecific cultural focus such as jazz (Sanchez, Emanuel)."
- Bruce Ross, editor of Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku

About the Author
Yoshinobu Hakutani is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Richard Wright and Racial Discourse; Wright’s Haiku: This Other World; and Theodore Dreiser’s Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902.

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