Haiku and Modernist Poetics »

Yoshinobu Hakutani is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Richard Wright and Racial Discourse; Wright’s Haiku: This Other World; and Theodore Dreiser’s Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902.

This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics.

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 The Genesis and Development of Haiku in Japan 7

2 Basho and Haiku Poetics 17

3 Yone Noguchi and Japanese Poetics 37

4 W. B. Yeats's Poetics in the Noh Play 53

5 Ezra Pound, Imagism, and Japanese Poetics 69

6 Jack Kerouac's Haiku and Beat Poetics 89

7 Richard Wright's Haiku, Zen, and the African "Primal Outlook upon Life" 111

8 Cross-Cultural Poetics: Sonia Sanchez's Like the Singing Coming off the Drums 127

9 James Emanuel's Jazz Haiku 139

Notes 159

Works Cited 173

Subject Index 179

Index of Haiku and Poems 191