Cage of Fireflies: Modern Japanese Haiku

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Haiku at its best is an art in which the poet takes a natural, most ordinary event, and without fuss, ornament or inflated words makes of it a rare moment -- sparely rendered, crystallized into a microcosm which reveals transcendent unity. Small wonder haiku has a growing audience throughout the world.

In all arts -- music, painting, dance, theatre -- change has come with that startling moment of dissatisfaction when the artist upends complacency,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804009767

ISBN13:9780804009768

Release Date:October 1993

Publisher:Swallow Press

Length:118 Pages

Weight:0.88 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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