#201 14.06 Sueku/Haiku: Mimimalist Poems by SUE LITTLETON >


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EDITOR's NOTE:

Tradition numbers rather than titles a poet's Hailu (collectively, 'haibun']. Lower numbers precede higher numbers in sequence of when the habun were written; thus, a first haiku would be 1 and the latest might be 190 - numbers do not represent place in a text, but in the poet's oeuvre. Littleton's haibun (141 poems] are presenteed out of numerical sequence in hope that readers will appreciate possibilities for contrasting and comparing earlier and later usage. Sue's work is notable for her attempt to avoid articles (a, an, the, etc.] which are not used in Japanese haiku.

The tanka form in Japanese tradition is five lines consisting in 5-7-5 [break] 7-7 syllables. Haiku (head) takes its name from its position in the tanka. Haiku have come to be limited to 5 syllables in line one; 7 in line two; 5 in line three. In Japanese, the last syllable is wa which to other ears is replaced by the silent exclamation point [!], thus 16 syllables in English; but, English - and other - haiku poets generally keep 17 syllables in toto.

Haiku are observational poems usually about a solitary individual in nature; the observation leads to wonder, surprize, amazement: some sort of emotional response as an exclamation of discovery [thus the "!" or "wa" ending line three]. In effect, line two is a turn [volta] from the objectified "natural" world external to the poet to the poet's subjective response to the observation. Not all the rules are followed outside Japan.

Haiku were introduced into American literary circles by Greek-Irish writer Lefcadio Hearn (known also as Koizumi Yakumo] who wrote about Cajun Culture in New Orleans and much about Japan and its culture, among other topics. He also created a little known form of poetry which he called 'American Haiku' the term now widely used for all haiku written in America [properly, 'kaiku in America']. His "American Haiku" form was not widely accepted but the Japanese form became popular in the 20th Century .

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SUE LITTLETON Sueku/Haiku: Mimimalist Poems
in English [en],and Spanish [es]
with translations into French [fr] by Anne Seite

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SUE LITTLETON : On Writing Classical Haiku,
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