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Subject: Re: [Leica] Haiku/kerouac
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:53:49 -0700
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Before most of my beat era friends passed away, I used to go with them
to poetry readings. They would call them "blows", for the way they were
expelling out the words. 
Slobodan Dimitrov


Teresa299@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 4/29/02 8:41:14 AM, geeman1066@earthlink.net writes:
> 
> << Karina,
>     The definition I've always liked and taught my students is "single breath
> poetry." Some choose to define the form by syllables and numbers of lines--5,
> 7, 5, or 4, 6,4 are common structures--but my readings of Japanese haiku, the
> country in which, I believe, the form originated, demonstrated to me that the
> form needn't be that restrictive.  Haiku are meant to convey a single image
> without personal commentary by the author, i.e. the poem should not have an
> overt message or theme, but merely seek to paint a picture in the mind. There
> are many similarities between Haiku and the Imagist movement founded by Ezra
> Pound.  In fact, one of my favorite examples is Carl Sandburg's "Fog," who
> was one of the imagist poets: >>
> 
> And there's the heirs to that movement the Beat writers like Kerouac's "pop"
> american haiku as well...with an emphasis on sound, a small meditation that
> as Kerouac said is "as simple as porridge and yet makes you see the real
> thing."  In some ways a great definition of art as well.   Some examples:
> 
> Early morning with the
>         happy dogs--
>      I forgot the Path
>  
>      The dog yawned
>         and almost swallowed
>      My Dharma
> 
> And from desolation angels
> 
> A bubble, a shadow -
>  woop -
> The lightning flash
>  
> Thunder in the mountains -
>  the iron
> Of my mother's love
>  
> Mist boiling from the
>  ridge - the mountains
> Are clean
>  
> Mist before the peak
>  - the dream
> Goes on
>  
> as cold
>   water in a dell
>     on a dusty tired trail -
>  
> Girls' footprints
>  in the sand
> - Old mossy pile
>  
> Wooden house
> raw gray -
> Pink light in the window
>  
> Neons, Chinese restaurants
>  coming on -
> Girls come by shades
> 
> -kim
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