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__The Routledge Global Haiku Reader__ provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku’s various global developments, demonstrating the form’s complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present. The sixteen chapters are carefully organized into categories that reflect the salient areas of practice and study: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, and The Future of Global Haiku. An insightful introduction surveys haiku’s influence beyond Japan and frames the collection historically and culturally, questioning commonly held assumptions about haiku and laying the groundwork for new ways of seeing the form. Haiku’s elusiveness, its resistance to definition, is partly what keeps it so relevant today, and this book traces the many ways in which this global verse form has evolved. __The Routledge Global Haiku Reader__ ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and histo

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Author

James Shea (editor); Grant Caldwell (editor)

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781032275659

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities