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American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers from the late nineteenth century to modern times.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Summaries of Essays
Part I: History
Chapter One: Yone Noguchi's Invention of English-language Haiku
Toru Kiuchi
Chapter Two: Ezra Pound, Imagism, and Haiku
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter Three: Mutual Influence between the American and the Japanese Haiku: The History of American Haiku
Toshio Kimura
Chapter Four: 100 Years of Haiku in the United States: An Overview
Jim Kacian
Chapter Five: Haiku in Higher Education: A Bibliography of Articles & Theses on Haiku
Concluding with a Model of Teaching Haiku as Performance Learning
Randy Brooks
Part II: Criticism
Chapter Six: Richard Wright's Haiku, Zen, and the African "Primal Outlook upon Life"
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter Seven: Zen Buddhism in Richard Wright's Haiku
Toru Kiuchi
Chapter Eight: African American Haiku and Aesthetic Attitude
John Zheng
Chapter Nine: Jack Kerouac's Haiku and The Dharma Bums
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter Ten: Sonia Sanchez's Morning Haiku and the Blues
Heejung Kim
Chapter Eleven: Those "Negro slaves, dark purple ripened plums": Black Atlantic Captives Revisited in Cane and Parodied in Jazz from the Haiku King
Virginia W. Smith
Chapter Twelve: Creating African American Haiku Form: Lenard D. Moore's Poetic Artistry
Toru Kiuchi
Chapter Thirteen: Cid Corman and Haiku: The Poetics of "Livingdying"
Ce Rosenow
Chapter Fourteen: Burnell Lippy's Haiku in Relation to Zen
Bruce Ross
Contributors
Index
About the author
Toru Kiuchi is professor of English at Nihon University.
Summary
American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers from the late nineteenth century to modern times.
