| Description |
x, 294 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
New Directions paperbook ; NDP1426
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New Directions paperbook ; NDP1426.
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| Note |
"First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP) in 2018"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Note and Acknowledgments -- Haiku Talk: From Bashō to J.D. Salinger -- What Is Haiku? Serious and Playful Aspects -- Haiku and Zen: Association and Dissociation -- Hearn, Bickerton, Hubbell: Translation and Definition -- White Quacks and Whale Meat: Bashō's Kasen, "The Sea Darkens" -- Renga and Assassination: The Cultured Warlord Akechi Mitsuhide -- Issa and Hokusai -- From Wooden Clogs to the Swimsuit: Women in Haikai and Haiku -- The Haiku Reformer Shiki: How Important Is His Haiku? -- The "Gun-Smoke" Haiku Poet Hasegawa Sosei -- From the 2.26 Incident to the Atomic Bombs: Haiku During the Asia-Pacific War -- "Haiku Poet Called a Hooker": Suzuki Shizuko -- "Gendai Haiku": What Is It? -- Mitsuhashi Takajo: Some Further Explication -- Mishima Yukio and Hatano Sōha -- Outré Haiku of Katō Ikuya -- In the Cancer Ward: Tada Chimako -- Receiving a Falconer's Haibun -- Through the Looking Glass -- Glossary of Terms -- Glossary of Names. |
| Note |
Some parallel texts in English and Japanese. |
| Subject |
Haiku -- History and criticism.
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Haiku -- Translations into English.
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Japanese poetry -- History and criticism.
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Haiku, American -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- Japanese influences.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780811227414 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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0811227413 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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