Haiku and modernist poetics
Yoshinobu Hakutani.
- 1st ed.
- New York Palgrave Macmillan 2009.
- 195 p. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The genesis and development of haiku in Japan -- Basho and haiku poetics -- Yone Noguchi and Japanese poetics -- W.B. Yeats' poetics in the noh play -- Ezra Pound, imagism, and Japanese poetics -- Jack Kerouac's haiku and beat poetics -- Richard Wright's haiku, Zen, and the African "primal outlook upon life" -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku.
Haiku--History and criticism. American poetry--Japanese influences.--20th century Haiku, American--History and criticism. Poetics. Haiku--Appreciation.