Richard Wright and haiku
By: Yoshinobu Hakutani
Contributors: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780826220011
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; American Haiku; History and criticism; American literature; Japanese influences; Imagist poetry; American poetry; African American authors
Notes: Includes a selection of Richard Wright's haiku on pages 153-171.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. History and criticism. The genesis and development of haiku in Japan; title: Basho and haiku poetics; title: Yone Noguchi and Japanese poetics; title: Ezra Pound, imagism, and haiku; title: Haiku and haiku criticism in English; title: Wright's haiku as English poems; title: Wright's haiku and classic haiku poetics; title: Wright's haiku and modernist poetics; title: Wright's haiku and Africa; title: Wright's haiku and Senryu; title: Part II. Selected haiku by Richard Wright. A selection from Haiku : this other world.