The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku's various global developments, demonstrating the form's complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present. The sixteen chapters are carefully organized into categories that reflect the salient areas of practice and study: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, The Future of Global Haiku. An insightful introduction surveys haiku's influence beyond Japan and frames the collection historically and culturally, questioning commonly held assumptions about haiku and laying the groundwork for new ways of seeing the form. Haiku's elusiveness, its resistance to definition, is partly what keeps it so relevant today, and this book traces the many ways in which this global verse form has evolved. The Routledge Global Haiku Reader ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and historically informed manner for a new generation of readers and writers and will appeal to students and researchers in literary studies, Asian studies, comparative literature, cultural studies and creative writing.

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku's various global developments, demonstrating the form's complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present. The sixteen chapters are carefully organized into categories that reflect the salient areas of practice and study: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, The Future of Global Haiku. An insightful introduction surveys haiku's influence beyond Japan and frames the collection historically and culturally, questioning commonly held assumptions about haiku and laying the groundwork for new ways of seeing the form. Haiku's elusiveness, its resistance to definition, is partly what keeps it so relevant today, and this book traces the many ways in which this global verse form has evolved. The Routledge Global Haiku Reader ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and historically informed manner for a new generation of readers and writers and will appeal to students and researchers in literary studies, Asian studies, comparative literature, cultural studies and creative writing.

Imagine, reader, that your "poetry engine" has stalled. What you need is a creative battery jumpstart. This book will do it with you. From the "Flight Poems of the Imagination" to "Live with a Thorned Heart," "Everywhere Past the Galaxy," these poems attempt to feed and characterize what becomes beauty in images into the profound and ideal, guided by a "Student of Life," pointing to the masters, in an ever- brocaded journey into rhyme and sound; you'll find yourself tasting of a higher power of the divine citing itself somewhere in time before beginning, before the bang. Those fragile words go forth to enrich those who might embark on eternity to find themselves and their deity. Sort or long the verses fall from a poetic heaven, as drops of rain in a storm, as a prelude to life, yet to be. Put yourself in the cockpit, off to find a brilliant star cluster, as far off as you'll go, where even the imaginings run dry. Counsel your peers; bring up your dregs. Carve out an empire rivaling Alexander, The Great still needs to be done. Go with God

While some sought money, fame, or education, or some other goal or theme in their books and writing, the author focused and aimed his sights on the experiences garnered in life; and to the best of his ability, he was a seeker of the supreme power of the universe. Conscious union with God had actually always been of great importance for Richard, since he first thought about such things at an early age. It seemed simple and basic enough for Richard to regard it as a pillar to his real goal of eternal happiness. The idea is that the metamorphosis of the worm into butterfly (papillion) involves spinning, changing, and giving birth; in this case, to dreams, reflections, and visions of a silk of the highest order, and the turning of bombers to butterflies, above our worlds. Includes borrowed metaphors purposely from Kafka, Papillion, Jung, and Woodstock by Joni Mitchell.