Haiku and modernist poetics
By: Yoshinobu Hakutani.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230616554
Subjects: Haiku -- History and criticism; Haiku -- Appreciation; Poetics; Haiku, American -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- Japanese influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The genesis and development of haiku in Japan; title: Basho and haiku poetics; title: Yone Noguchi and Japanese poetics; title: W.B. Yeats' poetics in the Noh play; title: Ezra Pound, imagism, and Japanese poetics; title: Jack Kerouac's haiku and beat poetics; title: Richard Wright's haiku, zen, and the African primal outlook upon life; title: Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums; title: James Emanuel's jazz haiku.