"Japan's Haiku Poets Lost for Words as Climate Crisis Disrupts Seasons"
"'The seasons are important to haiku because they focus on one particular element,' adds McMurray, a professor of intercultural studies at the International University of Kagoshima, where he lectures on international haiku. 'But typhoons arrive in the summer now, and we're getting mosquitoes in the autumn, even in northern Japan. The risk is that we will lose the central role of the four seasons in composing haiku.'"
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jane Huffman on Language as Form
"In 'The Rest,' I use the repeating language pattern to demonstrate a breakdown from idea into sound, from the recognizable image—a vase of flowers—into something stranger, something that attends to the 'prehistorical, preconceptual and prelinguistic' utterance 'prior to its translation into language-mediated conceptual sense.'" |
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