Richard Wright and Haiku

by Yoshinobu Hakutani

In the last years of his life, Richard Wright, the fierce and original American novelist known for Native Son and Black Boy, wrote over four thousand haiku. In Richard Wright and Haiku, Yoshinobu Hakutani considers Wright the poet and his late devotion to the spare, unrhymed verse that dwells on human beings' relationship to the natural world rather than on their relationships with one another, a strong departure from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826220010
• ISBN13: 9780826220011
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5