The Disjunctive Dragonfly: A New Approach to English-Language Haiku

by Richard Gilbert

The Disjunctive Dragonfly is Richard Gilbert's update of a portion of his seminal Poems of Consciousness (Red Moon Press, 2008), wherein he investigates how language experimentation in contemporary English-language haiku both connects and radically departs from 20th century conventions. Gilbert identifies 24 varieties of disjunction that haiku poets have at their disposal, with examples and explication. This volume is the most important theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1533612404
• ISBN13: 9781533612403
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.3"