The genesis and development of haiku in Japan -- Basho and haiku poetics -- Yone Noguchi and Japanese poetics -- W.B. Yeats' poetics in the noh play -- Ezra Pound, imagism, and Japanese poetics -- Jack Kerouac's haiku and beat poetics -- Richard Wright's haiku, Zen, and the African "primal outlook upon life" -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku
Summary
This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces the impact haiku has made on modernist poetics
