{"product_id":"african-american-haiku-cultural-visions-hardcover","title":"African American Haiku: Cultural Visions - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Zheng\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfrican American Haiku: Cultural Visions\u003c\/i\u003e offers insights into African American poets' innovations in the haiku form, shedding light on a neglected aspect of black poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Notable scholars present new interpretations of well-known works. Essays trace the verse of five major African American haiku poets: Richard Wright, James Emanuel, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, and Lenard D. Moore. Sachi Nakachi investigates the influence of Japanese aesthetics and Eastern philosophy on Richard Wright's haiku showing Wright's interest in the blues as poetry. Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes the vision and affinity of jazz and haiku throughout James Emanuel's \u003ci\u003eJazz from the Haiku King\u003c\/i\u003e. And Claude Wilkinson digs into Etheridge Knight's improvisation and adherence to tradition of haiku and African American vernacular form. The collection also explores how Sanchez creates a new American hybrid form of the modern haiku in English by blending haiku with her own principles of a black aesthetic. Toru Kiuchi shows how Lenard D. Moore expresses his experiences through haiku with his African American aesthetics and connections to black southern culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By discussing multiple writers from a variety of disciplines in a single volume, the essayists compare and contrast the work created by writers, poets, and musicians, and illuminate the variety of methods African American authors used when adapting this traditional Japanese form. The result is a volume that offers rich insight into African American aesthetics, the black arts movement, gender issues, blues and jazz, and trends in contemporary poetry.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Zheng \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University and author of \u003ci\u003eA Way of Looking\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Gerald Cable Book Award. He is also editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eConversations with Dana Gioia\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Conversations with Sterling Plumpp\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecoeditor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Gish Jen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eall published by University Press of Mississippi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 10, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42734947336255,"sku":"9781496803030","price":140.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9c19bc5a3fdb85d0265adfbfdfccdd42.webp?v=1765141656","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/african-american-haiku-cultural-visions-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}