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Richard Wright and Haiku
Yoshinobu Hakutani
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Description for Richard Wright and Haiku
Hardcover. Includes a selection of Richard Wright's haiku on pages 153-171. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
In the last years of his life, Richard Wright, the fierce and original American novelist known for Native Son and Black Boy, wrote over four thousand haiku. In Richard Wright and Haiku, Yoshinobu Hakutani considers Wright the poet and his late devotion to the spare, unrhymed verse that dwells on human beings’ relationship to the natural world rather than on their relationships with one another, a strong departure from the intense and often conflicted relationships that had dominated his fiction.
Wright was not the only famous American author to be attracted to the art of haiku. Jack Kerouac, the ... Read more
In the last years of his life, Richard Wright, the fierce and original American novelist known for Native Son and Black Boy, wrote over four thousand haiku. In Richard Wright and Haiku, Yoshinobu Hakutani considers Wright the poet and his late devotion to the spare, unrhymed verse that dwells on human beings’ relationship to the natural world rather than on their relationships with one another, a strong departure from the intense and often conflicted relationships that had dominated his fiction.
Wright was not the only famous American author to be attracted to the art of haiku. Jack Kerouac, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826220011
SKU
V9780826220011
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Ref
99-15
About Yoshinobu Hakutani
Yoshinobu Hakutani is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University in Ohio. He is the author or editor of many books, including Richard Wright: A Documentary Life, 1908-1960, with Toru Kiuchi and Richard Wright and Racial Discourse (University of Missouri Press).
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