Japanische Lyrik

Volume 11 from Tokyo Poetry Journal. Collection of poetry from poets living in, traveling through, researching about, translating, dreaming of, building, remixing or occasionally having nothing to do with Tokyo. And some book reviews.Featuring poetry by Kana Hozoji, Seira Duncan, Alvin Wong, David Severn & Taylor Mignon, Christian Hernández, and many more. Featuring translations of: Terayama Sh¿ji by Marc Sebastian-Jones, Misumi Mizuki by Andrew Gebert, Ibaragi Noriko by Andrew Houwen and Peter Robinson, Nagae Y¿ki by Jordan A. Y. Smith.Featured artists Simon Kalajdjiev (cover art), Apolo Cacho, and Erica Ward.

These haikus relate to the immigrant experience of first generation Indian immigrants, particularly their dislocation, homesickness and assimilation in a society that is vastly different than the one they left behind. In essence, it is about searching for a lost home. The book also reflects starkly different landscapes, flora and fauna of two countries--India and the United States/ These haikus also provide a message that is both cautionary and instructive, difficult yet uplifting. Ultimately, it is an inspiring tale of how to survive as an immigrant woman and succeed in America. It is an all-American story-and a timely one given the atmosphere created by the current powers-that-be at the national level.

LEW-IS UNPLUGGED 2 is a book of poetry written in the Japanese style tradition Senryu, Haiku, and Tanka. This poetry is meant to be Concision, Perception, and Awareness.

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In neuer Übersetzung: das wohl einflussreichste französische Buch über das alte China.Auf seinen Reisen zwischen Shanghai, Fuzhou und Hankou beginnt der Diplomat Claudel gleich bei seinem ersten Aufenthalt von 1895-1899 mit der Niederschrift literarischer Momentaufnahmen. Obwohl er die chinesische Sprache nicht versteht, fühlt er sich sofort wie ein Fisch im Wasser, alles erscheint ihm 'natürlich und normal', die scheinbare Unordnung der chinesischen Stadt wird für ihn zum Zeichen einer Harmonie, die er der etablierten Ordnung europäischer Großstädte vorzieht. China sollte fortan das Land sein, in dem Paul Claudel nach kurzem Zwischenaufenthalt in Japan die meiste Zeit seiner diplomatischen Karriere verbrachte.Eindrücke vom Meer, den Flüssen, dem Land und den Gärten wechseln sich in den von eigenwilligen, mitunter gebrochenen Rhythmen durchzogenen Prosagedichten ab. Claudel streut Reflexionen, Gesänge und Fabeln ein; Phasen des Innehaltens, der produktiven Leere und Meditation folgt rasende Bewegung. Sie sind daher literarisches Zeugnis einer durch Baudelaire angestoßenen und von Rimbaud weitergeführten aufgebrochenen Prosaform und zugleich Zeugnis eines von allen Klischees befreiten und völlig unvoreingenommenen Blicks auf ein China des späten 19. Jahrhunderts.

Long Rain is an exquisite collection of five line poems (tanka) and short prose (haibun), organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. Here, Moore expands on the rich history of African-American writers such as Richard Wright, Sonya Sanchez and James Emanuel, creating a masterful transformation of the Japanese tradition into a sharply observant and quietly defiant poetry of the Black experience in America.

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Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize<BR><BR> Inspired by Matsuo Basho's writings and teachings on poetics and haiku, the interrelated lyric poems in Sky of Wu investigate work and marriage, the question of becoming a parent while watching a parent age into dementia, and the realities of wrestling with inequality, pollution, and habitat loss while navigating everyday life in Oakland, California. Simultaneously, they converse with Chinese poets from the eighth century and Japanese writers from the eleventh and seventeenth centuries. From these disparate sources, Halebsky weaves together small moments, stolen phrases, and images of beauty, allowing them to reveal their own sly humor and unvarnished truth.

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Being Love is a collection of haiku poems paired with Zen-style artwork. Shani, an American spiritual teacher, invites you to awaken your spiritual health via clear and concise pathways to truth. Every included poem and painting holds a profound mystical power that can be used as a tool to bring you into an intense state of self-awareness.Shani's words pull you deep into innate spiritual wisdom. Pages are filled with the richness of truth and act as doorways to self-love. These poetic expressions have been sent to guide us all to truth and enlightenment.Even though exact descriptions of enlightenment are impossible, as it is something deeply felt and not seen, Shani does an excellent job expressing the inexpressible. Through her pages of haiku and art, she hopes that all may be liberated, know truth, and be blessed by love.

Sabrina Ito's poetry chapbook, Messages from Salt Water explores how love, betrayal, discovery and acceptance drive and define our relationships with others, as well as with ourselves. Autobiographical in nature, these poems chronicle various stages of Ito's personal life - from her childhood experiences in Japan, to her adult years in Canada and the USA. Displacement, racial identity and unresolved relationships feature as predominant themes, while water symbolism unifies the collection. Simple, yet evocative, Ito's poetic style invokes the natural Japanese landscapes where many of her poems take place. An honest and sincere portrayal of how life-changing moments are often fleeting and indefinable, Messages from Salt Water is narrative poetry at its best - accessible stories told through lyrical language, that readers will want to revisit and re-experience again, and again.

Som den blå himlentillhör en annan planetoch den gör den nog Intensiva, men ibland lågmälda, sällan så strama, upplevelser och ögonblick i haikuform om livet på Stenkusten och dess närhet på Gotland tar sig form i -En Skugga blir till-. Haiku i fri tolkning och form och foton även de från Gotland. En våg kommer inonomatopoesislår lock för ögonen

"Reading should be proactive. And in one's writings, one ought always strive to encourage this proactivity in the reader. Much like a coach, or a fan, cheering a player on to greater and greater feats- only in literature, the field-of-play is a book of poetry, or prose, or as in this case- haiku."- Jon SeymourIn his first ever commercial work, Jon Seymour has done just that- enticing the reader with his Haiku-inspired musings on myriad things, both universal and unique to our time. A stimulating and truly enjoyable read- you're likely to find yourself referencing these triplets in your everyday conversations. No cranes, cherry blossoms or lotus leaves here- just the everyday subject matter which people vexed over hundreds (if not thousands) of years ago... and continue to do so, to this very day. With more than a few thoughts on items unique to our epoch.This universal appeal with a modern twist, will make it difficult for you to put Haiku down once you've started reading it. A page-turner, if ever there was one!

Alexander's collection of haibun, haiku, and senryu takes you on a journey through the life of an amazing poet. In addition to sharing memories of family, friends, neighbors, school, and work, Alexander also focuses on haiku moments he experienced within a variety of natural and urban environments. Terrie Leigh Relf, author of Poets Workshop and Beyond! and An Untoward Bliss of Moons

Begun two decades ago as a tanka sequence dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein, R. W. Watkins's Waka-Cola is the long-awaited fourth title in the Poetical Perspectives series from Nocturnal Iris. Throughout the volume, Watkins pays tribute to most of the major American masters of 1950s and '60s pop art and neo-dada, utilising the Japanese tanka-or waka-form of poetry to emulate their styles and concepts. Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, George Segal and Ray Johnson are celebrated ever so imaginatively by Watkins, all the while adhering to the traditional 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure. The result is a short collection that both demonstrates the poet's ability to transcend the perceived limits of the waka form, and serves as a poetic reflexion of the mid 20th century New York art scene. Highly visual in their application and pop-cultural in their subject matter, these poems foreshadow similar projects forthcoming in the PP series; so watch this space....