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The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku's various global developments, demonstrating the form's complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present.
The sixteen chapters are carefully organized into categories that reflect the salient areas of practice and study: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, and The Future of Global Haiku. An insightful introduction surveys haiku's influence beyond Japan and frames the collection historically and culturally, questioning commonly held assumptions about haiku and laying the groundwork for new ways of seeing the form. Haiku's elusiveness, its resistance to definition, is partly what keeps it so relevant today, and this book traces the many ways in which this global verse form has evolved.
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and historically informed manner for a new generation of readers and writers and will appeal to students and researchers in Asian studies, literary studies, comparative literature, creative writing, and cultural studies
List of contents
List of Contributors
List of Permissions
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Haiku in Transit
1 Beyond the Haiku Moment: Bashō, Buson, and Modern Haiku Myths
2 Hearn, Bickerton, Hubbell: Translation and Definition
3 Reading an Evening Breeze: Buson’s Hokku in Translation
II Haiku and Social Consciousness
4 A Second-Class Art: On Contemporary Haiku
5 From the 2.26 Incident to the Atomic Bombs: Haiku During the Asia-Pacific War
6 New Rising Haiku: The Evolution of Modern Japanese Haiku and the Haiku Persecution Incident
7 Translations and Migrations of the Poetic Diary: Roy Kiyooka’s Wheels
III Haiku and Experimentation
8 Ezra Pound, Yone Noguchi, and Imagism
9 Haiku as a Western Genre: Fellow-Traveler of Modernism
10 Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival
11 The Disjunctive Dragonfly: A Study of Disjunctive Method and Definitions in Contemporary English-Language Haiku
IV The Future of Global Haiku
12 Non-Japanese Haiku Today
13 One Hundred Bridges, One Hundred Traditions in Haiku
14 In the Shade of the Cherry Blossoms: The Reception of Haiku in Post-Soviet Russia
15 From Haiku to the Short Poem: Bridging the Divide 16 Future of World Haiku
V Afterword
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
About the author
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.
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The Routledge Global Haiku Reader ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and historically informed manner for a new generation of readers and writers and will appeal to students and researchers in literary studies, Asian studies, comparative literature, cultural studies and creative writing.
