"The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku"
reveals Richard Wright's poetic vision toward the human world.
Through the minimal form of haiku, Wright (1908-1960) found his
poetic connection to nature. This sensibility displays not only the
change in him as a writer but also the tenderness in him as a human
being.
These essays open up a new territory in Wright studies by
tracing the development of Wright's aesthetic and its relationship
to African and Japanese cultures. The book tells how haiku offered
a therapeutic outlet for Wright in his final two years of life in
Paris, explores the influence of Zen Buddhism on Wright's haiku,
and delivers a thematic analysis of Wright's haiku. The collection
also gives us a focused examination of how Wright's haiku reveal a
conflict between nature and culture, how women are exploited for
labor and sex by the culture at-large, and how the South in
Wright's haiku symbolizes a place full of dreams, memories,
hardships, and loneliness with his images of cotton, freight
trains, croaking frogs, magnolia trees, and hog-killing.
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