Haiku and Modernist Poetics

by Yoshinobu Hakutani

This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics. This study shows that the most pervasive East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was in the reading and writing of haiku in the West. Hakutani roots Y.B Yeats symbolism in cross cultural visions; reveals Ezra Pound s imagism to have originated in haiku; and discusses some of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230616550
• ISBN13: 9780230616554
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"