Words On Poetry: English Form of Haiku Showcased in Small-Format Anthology

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The lyric poem is by definition a short genre, and probably its shortest formal expression is the Japanese haiku. Haiku in English has evolved into its own type of poem, often less than the seventeen syllables of the original and most often written in three horizontal lines.

The Unswept Path, edited by John Brandhi and Dennis Maloney (White Pine Press, 2005), is a varied collection of English- language haiku. In his preface, William J. Higginson writes that he sets the collection "some hundred years after the poets of Europe and the Americas discovered haiku and fifty years after the beginnings of a haiku movement in North America."

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Words On Poetry: English Form of Haiku Showcased in Small-Format Anthology

Elizabeth Searle Lamb was one of those originally involved in the early days of the Haiku ...

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