Common Wealth Club
June 2015
Haiku Across Borders: From Japan to the United States . . . and Back Again? Perspectives of an American Haiku Poet
$20
Haiku, the 17-syllable poetic form from Japan, is today written by haiku poets worldwide - from 2011 Nobel Prize-winning Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, to American writer Richard Wright, to elementary school children across America. How has this traditional Japanese art form been understood – and misunderstood – as it made its way from Japan to…
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