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Monthly Archives: January 2012
HOKKU AND MODERN HAIKU: THE APPLE AND THE PULP
As I never cease repeating here, it is extremely important not to confuse hokku and haiku. People in the modern haiku community like to pretend, for some reason, that it is not true; they like to say that haiku is … Continue reading
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Tagged haiku, hokku, Masaoka Shiki, Modern Haiku, modern hokku, poetry, seasons, writing
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LOCALIZING POETRY: THE WESTRON WYNDE
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Tagged Chaucer, poetry, poetry analysis, spring, Tudor poetry, western wind, Westron wynde, writing, Zephyrus
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THE TRADITIONAL HOKKU CALENDAR WEST AND EAST
As I have written before, in hokku we make use of two calendars: First, there is the “natural” calendar, which varies depending on where one lives. For example, in my state spring comes earlier in the lowlands … Continue reading
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FAILURE OF TRANSMISSION
I do not have a high opinion of Wikipedia. In my view, the entries there are often controlled by special interest groups or cliques that skew the information to fit their pet notions. That, of course, distorts the information for … Continue reading
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HA-HA!: A QUICK LOOK AT SENRYU
Every now and then I like to mention hokku’s “evil twin,” senryu. Unlike hokku, senryu does not express a particular season. Nor does it express Nature and the place of humans within and as a part of Nature. Instead, senryu … Continue reading
DAY DARKENS; FORGETTING THE WORDS
Gyōdai wrote: Day darkens; Again the snow Begins to fall. One familiar with conventional Western poetry is likely to ask, “What does it mean?” That is a question inappropriate for hokku. Archibald MacLeish once wrote in his Ars Poetica (“The … Continue reading
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Tagged hokku, poetry, snow, spirituality, T'ao Ch'ien, winter, winter hokku, writing
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THE SOUND OF BRANCHES; the Simplicity of Hokku
There is a hokku by Buson, translated thus by R. H. Blyth: Snow-break also Can be heard, This dark night. I think many reading the verse without his explanation would fail to understand it, and that is always a problem. … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking branches, Buson, snow, spirituality, winter, winter hokku, writing
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