Joshua Gage on horizontal and vertical axis
New to haiku advice for beginners
Mike Rehling on Haiga and Senryu
A friend asked me about my interest in learning Japanese to understand haiku better. I got a sense from the translations that it is better to know them in the original language. She wondered how I knew that it would be a treasure. Then I relaised that I was taken by the haiku translated in English and the Japanese prints attached with them, but I always wondered about the original and how one line of characters held so much meaning in them.
Reading the Senryu book, at first I couldnt get myself to move away from the nature writing. Reading that Senryu is about human nature, I realise tat sometimes it is hard to remove our presence or our POV even if it is nature that we are observing. many Westerners who write haiku are actually writing senryu!
Loved this podcast about pre modern Senryu followed with modern Senryu.
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