Japanese Forms in American Poetry

Ce Rosenow is Instructor in the Department of Writing and Literature at Lane Community College,.

From Basho’s frogpond, beyond the barbed wire of Japanese-American internment camps, to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the murder of George Floyd, haiku, tanka, senryu, and other originally Japanese verse forms have entered the marrow of modern and contemporary American poetry. Just how this transfusion took place—and how it continues to register in works by the likes of Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, Sonia Sanchez, Langston Hughes, and Lenard D. Moore—are the animating questions of this insightful collection of essays by leading scholars. A must read for anyone interested in American as well as Japanese poetry!

• Table of ContentsAbout the ContributorsIntroductionCe Rosenow (Lane Community College, USA)1. Plurality within Disruption: Opening Haibun to Complex Lived Realities and NarrativesAubrie Cox Warner (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA)2. Linked Verse in America: The History and Current StateJohn J. Han (Missouri Baptist University, USA)3. Poetic Responses to Adversity: A Longstanding Senryu Tradition in AmericaCe Rosenow (Lane Community College, USA)4. Tanka, A Transplant in American PoetryJohn Zheng (Mississippi Valley State University, USA)Index