Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years

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The first anthology to map the full range of haiku in the English tradition.

Haiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art form, it has found a welcome home in the English-speaking world. This collection tells the story for the first time of Anglophone haiku, charting its evolution over the last one hundred years and placing it within its historical and literary context. It features an engaging introduction by former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins and an insightful historical overview by leading haiku poet, editor, and publisher Jim Kacian.

The selections range from the first fully realized haiku in English, Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro,” to plentiful examples by haiku virtuosos such as John Wills, Marlene Mountain, Nick Virgilio, and Raymond Roseliep, and to investigations into the genre by eminent poets like John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, and Seamus Heaney. The editors explore the genre’s changing forms and themes, highlighting its vitality and its breadth of poetic styles and content. Among the many poems on offer are organic form experiments by E. E. Cummings and Michael McClure, evocations of black culture by Richard Wright and Sonia Sanchez, and the seminal efforts of Jack Kerouac.

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From Booklist

*Starred Review* The English-language haiku was launched 100 years ago when Poetry magazine published Ezra Pound’s catalytic “In a Station of the Metro”: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.” Pound’s is the first of the more than 800 haiku gathered in this stirring and defining anthology constructed by haiku experts Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns. In his enlivening and informative introduction, poet Billy Collins avers that what is essential to haiku is not the precise number of syllables—traditionally 17 syllables are arranged 5-7-5—but rather the “epiphanic jolt, the ‘A ha!’ moment.” And, indeed, many poets dispense with syllable count and line configuration altogether. Collins notes, too, that the “tiny genre” was popularized “just in time for the Beats to adopt it and give it a special American twist.” Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Snyder do appear here, along with Langston Hughes, Wallace Stevens, Sonia Sanchez, and many poets who will be new to readers. Kacian concludes with an invaluable overview of the evolution of an enduring form that is freshly enticing and breathtaking in this time of small screens and pop-up messages. David Russo writes, “Sun in the bones / of a darting minnow / my cell phone rings.” --Donna Seaman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review

“A large, revealing anthology.” (Hiroaki Sato - Japan Times)

“Shows [this] poem’s brief form isn’t lost in translation.” (Jim Higgins - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

“Rich in variety. There is the poignant . . . the flippant . . . the experimental.” (Andrea Miller - Shambala Sun)

基本信息

作者：Jim Kacian

出版社：Norton

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0393348873

条形码: 978-0393348873

商品尺寸:  5 x 1.2 x 7.1