The Routledge global haiku reader / edited by James Shea and Grant Caldwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shea, James, 1976- editor.

Caldwell, Grant, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haiku--History and criticism.

Haiku.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 357 pages)

Other Title:

Global haiku reader

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

James Shea is the author of two books of poetry, The Lost Novel and Star in the Eye. A recipient of grants from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, he is the Director of the Creative and Professional Writing Program in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. Grant Caldwell is a senior lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are the writing of poetry and fiction, the psychology of composition, the teaching of creative writing, contemporary Australian poetry, the history and writing of haiku, and concrete poetry. Dr. Caldwell has published thirteen books of creative work (poetry, short fiction, and novels) and a critical monograph. He has received two Australia Council for the Arts Established Writers' Fellowships.

Contents:

Introduction / James Shea

Haiku in transit. Beyond the haiku moment: Bashō, Buson and modern haiku myths / Haruo Shirane

Hearn, Bickerton, Hubbell: translation and definition / Hiroaki Sato

Reading an evening breeze: Buson's Hokku in translation / James Shea

Haiku and social consciousness. The secondary art of modern haiku / Takeo Kuwabara (translated by Mark Jewel)

From the 2.26 Incident to the atomic bombs: haiku during the Asia-Pacific War / Hiroaki Sato

New rising haiku: the evolution of modern Japanese haiku and the haiku persecution incident / Yūki Itō

Translations and migrations of the poetic diary: Roy Kiyooka's Wheels / Judith Halebsky

Haiku and experimentation. Ezra Pound, Yone Noguchi, and imagism / Yoshinobu Hakutani

Haiku as a western genre: fellow traveler of modernism / Jan Hokenson

Marking Time in native America: haiku, elegy, survival / Karen Jackson Ford

The disjunctive dragonfly: a study of disjunctive method and definitions in contemporary English-language haiku / Richard Gilbert

The future of global haiku. Non-Japanese haiku today / Grant Caldwell

One hundred bridges, one hundred traditions in haiku / Charles Trumbull

In the shade of the cherry blossoms: the reception of haiku in post-Soviet Russia / Cécile Rousselet

From haiku to the short poem: bridging the divide / Philip Rowland

Future of world haiku / Ban'ya Natsuishi

Afterword / Anita Patterson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 01, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge global haiku reader

ISBN:

9781003293309

1003293301

9781000886573

1000886573

9781000886511

1000886514

Publisher Number:

40031918343

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