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Haiku and Modernist Poetics

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  • © 2009

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  1. Yoshinobu Hakutani
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Genesis and Development of Haiku in Japan

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 7-16

  4. Basho and Haiku Poetics

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 17-36

  5. Yone Noguchi and Japanese Poetics

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 37-51

  6. W. B. Yeats’s Poetics in the Noh Play

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 53-67

  7. Ezra Pound, Imagism, and Japanese Poetics

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 69-88

  8. Jack Kerouac’s Haiku and Beat Poetics

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 89-109

  9. Richard Wright’s Haiku, Zen, and the African “Primal Outlook upon Life”

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 111-126

  10. Cross-Cultural Poetics Sonia Sanchez’s Like the Singing Coming off the Drums

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 127-138

  11. James Emanuel’s Jazz Haiku

    • Yoshinobu Hakutani
    Pages 139-158

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 159-195
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About this book

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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"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, author of How to Haiku, A Writer's Guide to Haiku and Related Forms and 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, Ohio, USA. and author of many books, including Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku.

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