Haiku - Crawford Robert

The story of haiku’s global journey, from Japan to every culture and languageA century and a half ago, almost no one outside of Japan had heard of the haiku. Even in Tokyo some people regarded these tiny poems with disdain. Today they are the world’s most widely known poetic form, cherished and reviled in equal measure. At their best, haiku are highly attentive to the moment and describe the world with pinpoint accuracy; at their worst, they can be trite and cloyingly cute. How did these diminutive,... Zobrazit více