Download or read book Renku Reckoner written by John Carley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptions, seasonal schemas, appraisals and examples of twelve traditional and modern renku forms, from the 36-verse kasen to the 4-verse yotsumono. 19 chapters on renku theory and practice, including a series of carefully constructed exercises. Carley's reputation as a leading theorist in English-language renku is the result of 15 years' work, during which time he led hundreds of linked verse sequences and translated a significant number of Edo-period kasen. This book is the culmination of those efforts. In addition to reworked and expanded versions of previously published articles, Renku Reckoner contains several new chapters expounding the author's latest arguments, as well as a dozen complete poems, some never before published, including a new translation of the Basho-school kasen ""Purveyors of Verse"" (Shi akindo, 1682). This authoritative work will be a welcome addition to the library of any poet or reader, beginner or advanced, with a serious interest in collaborative poetry in English.
Download or read book The Playwright s Manifesto written by Paul Sirett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the STR Theatre Book Prize 2023 A manifesto for the future of playwriting, this book challenges you to be a part of that future in the belief that it is fundamentally important to write plays. Plays help us understand ourselves, others, and the world around us. Reading this book, you will be challenged to learn your craft, explode what you know, prioritise what is important to you, and write in the way that only you can write. Most books on playwriting explain how to create a believable character in a story driven by plot. This book, however, goes even further in its exploration of the playwright's most valuable tool: theatricality. By learning from the past, and the present, the playwrights of tomorrow can create new, vivid, theatrical drama for the future. This manifesto also examines the process of writing, the art of collaboration, and the impact of writing on a playwright's mental health. It identifies the highs and lows, as well as the trials and tribulations, of life as a playwright in today's world. Theatre is a living artform. It is time for playwrights to acknowledge that fact and to celebrate the unique, primal thrill that a live theatre experience offers us. The future of playwriting is in your hands. Do you accept the challenge?
Download or read book Haiku Before Haiku written by Steven D. Carter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for three hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning, hokku opens a a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a sequence called renga. Under the mastery of Basho, hokku first gained its modern independence. His talents evolved the style into the haiku beloved by so many poets today& mdash;Richard Wright, Jack Kerouac, and Billy Collins being notable devotees. This anthology reproduces 300 Japanese hokku poems composed between the thirteenth and early eighteenth centuries, from the work of the courtier Nijo Yoshimoto to the genre's first "professional" master, Sogi, and his subsequent disciples. It also features twenty masterpieces by Basho himself. Steven Carter, a renowned scholar of Japanese poetry and prominent translator, includes an introduction covering the history of haiku and the form's aesthetics and classifies these poems according to style and context& mdash;distinguishing early renga from Haikai renga and renga from the Edo period, for example. His rich commentary and analysis illuminates each work, and he adds their romanized versions and notes on composition and setting, as well as brief descriptions of the poets and the times in which they wrote.
Download or read book The model ready reckoner written by Model ready reckoner and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breasts of Snow written by Fumiko Nakajō and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bash s Haiku written by Matsuo Bashō and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Basho's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Bashō is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism. Born into the samurai class, Bashō rejected that world after the death of his master and became a wandering poet and teacher. During his travels across Japan, he became a lay Zen monk and studied history and classical poetry. His poems contained a mystical quality and expressed universal themes through simple images from the natural world. David Landis Barnhill's brilliant book strives for literal translations of Bashō's work, arranged chronologically in order to show Bashō's development as a writer. Avoiding wordy and explanatory translations, Barnhill captures the brevity and vitality of the original Japanese, letting the images suggest the depth of meaning involved. Barnhill also presents an overview of haiku poetry and analyzes the significance of nature in this literary form, while suggesting the importance of Bashō to contemporary American literature and environmental thought.
Download or read book The Haiku Handbook written by William J. Higginson and published by Kodansha USA Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a concise history of the Japanese haiku, including the changes of the haiku throughout the twentieth century as this beloved poetry form has been adapted to modern and urban settings. This title offers full chapters on form, the seasons in haiku, and haiku craft, as well as background on the Japanese poetic tradition. With a new foreword by poet, translator, and author Jane Reichhold ('Basho: The Complete Haiku'), this anniversary edition presents a concise history of the Japanese haiku, including the dynamic changes of the haiku throughout the twentieth century as this beloved
Download or read book Haiku in English written by Jim Kacian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of more than 800 poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. This collection tells the story for the first time of Anglophone haiku, charting its evolution over the last one hundred years and placing it within its historical and literary context.
Download or read book 100 Tanka by 100 Poets of Australia New Zealand written by Amelia Fielden and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Circa 1235, Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie) edited the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poems by 100 Poets) at his villa in Kyoto near Mt Ogura. Teika would surely have been both astonished and delighted were he to have been told that the Hyakunin Isshu has set out for the southern hemisphere, where one hundred talented poets have composed tanka in English for another such anthology. As a poet who happens to be witness to this special moment in history, I am deeply grateful to be given the honour of introducing this unique anthology to the world.' - Kiyoko Ogawa, co-editor of Poetry Nippon
Download or read book Beyond the Horizon Beyond written by Ramesh Kala and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Hear the Rain written by Peggy Willis Lyles and published by . This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferris Gilli writes, OA great number of Peggy Lyles? poems frame rich and timeless fragments of life, depicting moments that are the precious heritage of generation after generation.O This is a collection of 148 of Lyles' best haiku collected from over 25 years work.mother-daughtersmall talk . . .snap beans
Download or read book A Solitary Woman written by Pamela A. Babusci and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are many reasons to fall in love with A Solitary Woman. I did! Lovely, sensuous, brave, spirited tanka in the tradition of Izumi Shikubu, Yosano Akiko, Akitsu Ei and countless others who took the joys and pains of love, life and loss and transformed them into poetry. Hats off to Ms.Babusci for digging deep and unearthing the light in even the darkest moments of the heart. The ancient tradition of tanka lives on around the world, and Ms. Babusci is testament to its enduring power and grace." --Leza Lowitz, Editor of A Long Rainy Season: Contemporary Haiku and Tanka by Japanese Women and Author, Green Tea to Go: Stories from Tokyo Pamela A. Babusci is an artist. When she writes tanka she "puts a brush into paint & paint onto canvas" and not one shade of emotion or experience is absent from her palette. Hanging comfortably alongside van Gogh's Starry Night, Picasso's Blue Nude and O'Keeffe's Red Canna are honest self- portraits, passionate abstracts, landscapes of a life and soul laid bare. These are tanka of love, grief, pain, strength, longing, and at the heart of each, the pulse of every woman is palpable. In the hands of this gifted poet, A Solitary Woman is an invitation to a private viewing of a remarkable collection. -- Claire Everett, Editor of Skylark and author of twelve moons.
Download or read book A Vast Sky written by Bruce Ross and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vast Sky is an anthology of contemporary world haiku from 2000-2014. It is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind, with generous selections by established editors of Japan, Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia, India, Africa, etc. It includes insightful introductions to the history and poetics of haiku in its four major sections: Japan, Europe, The New World, and The Rest of the World. It includes up-to-date sources for contemporary world haiku.
Download or read book Symbiotic Poetry written by Jane Reichhold and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As English writers explore foreign poetry genres they are no longer writing completely in the style of the original. We need to find a new comprehensive term for these new works. This anthology of symbiotic poetry gives you examples.
Download or read book January written by M. Kei and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with the cold days of January and following the poet through a year of his life, January, A Tanka Diary, is the latest collection from the internationally respected tanka poet and editor, M. Kei. Melancholy, hopeful, or satiric, these are poems alive to the beauty of the world that surrounds us. He has the ability to capture subjects as small as a single snowflake or as big as history, all told with an intimate honesty. In Kei's hands, the ancient five line tanka poem breathes with contemporary life. "Step inside this book and meet a magician-a man who knows the secrets of the sea and the land and the sky; a man who can catch the vastness of oceans and the smallness of sparrows in the same few words in five lines."-Joy McCall, author of circling smoke, scattered bones
Download or read book A Wattle Seedpod written by Lorin Ford and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lorin Ford's imagery takes me right smack dab to her native Australia. Brilliantly inviting, a wattle seedpod offers close-up looks at small yet crucial events. She moves easily between human and natural worlds, most often seamlessly blending the two in an ideal haiku balance. Naturalist and poet, she takes me to a place where day-to-day existence can be as harsh and dangerous as it is rewarding. The beauty and utter realness of her work quite take my breath away." - Ferris Gilli, associate editor, The Heron's Nest
