Haiku and Modernist Poetics

YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University, Ohio, USA. and author of many books, including Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku.

Introduction 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 A. Emanuel's Jazz Haiku