This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics. This study shows that the most pervasive East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was in the reading and writing of haiku in the West. Hakutani roots Y.B Yeats symbolism in cross cultural visions; reveals Ezra Pound s imagism to have originated in haiku; and discusses some of the finest haiku written by Jack Kerouac, Richard Wright, Sonia Sanchez, and James Emanuel.

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YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University, Ohio, USA. and author of many books, including Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku.

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Introduction The Genesis and Development of Haiku in Japan Basho and Haiku Poetics Yone Noguchi and Japanese Poetics W. B. Yeats' Poetics in the Noh Play Ezra Pound, Imagism, and Japanese Poetics Jack Kerouac's Haiku and Beat Poetics Richard Wright's Haiku, Zen, and the African 'Primal Outlook upon Life' Cross-Cultural Poetics: Sonia Sanchez's Like the Singing Coming off the Drums James A. Emanuel's Jazz Haiku