Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen
for black Americans, author of the acclaimed "Native Son" and
"Black Boy," discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of
life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an
African-American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in
depicting man's relationship, not only to his fellow man as he had
in the raw and forceful prose of his fiction, but to the natural
world. In all, he wrote over 4,000 haiku.
Here are the 817 he personally chose; Wright's haiku, disciplined
and steeped in beauty, display a universality that transcends both
race and color without ever denying them. Wright wrote his haiku
obsessively--in bed, in cafes, in restaurants, in both Paris and
the French countryside. They offered him a new form of expression
and a new vision: with the threat of death constantly before him,
he found in them inspiration, beauty, and insights. Fighting
illness and frequently bedridden, deeply upset by the recent loss
of his mother, Ella, Wright continued, as his daughter notes in her
introduction, "to spin these poems of light out of the gathering
darkness."
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