Hakutani, Yoshinobu

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.

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Haiku--History and criticism.
American poetry--Japanese influences.--20th century
Haiku, American--History and criticism.
Poetics.
Haiku--Appreciation.

PL729 / .H2964 2009

809.141 / H156h