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Giving Poems: Motivation And Personality In The Reading And Sharing Of Poetry, Leeann Bartolini
Giving Poems: Motivation And Personality In The Reading And Sharing Of Poetry, Leeann Bartolini
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Most of the psychological work on poetry has investigated the poet (Mason, Mort, Woo, 2015; Jamison, 1989) or the expressive act of writing poetry (Fink & Drake, 2016, Coulehan & Clary, 2005). The National Poetry Foundation commissioned a study in 2006 that examined the general habits of the American public in terms of reading and sharing poetry. This survey found:14% of American population reads poetry.Readers in general and poetry readers in particular tend to be women with higher level of education.Poetry readers are not loners – high amounts of leisure activity and high sociability.Poetry readers tend to have read poetry …
Translations And Migrations Of The Poetic Diary: Roy Kiyooka’S Wheels, Judy Halebsky
Translations And Migrations Of The Poetic Diary: Roy Kiyooka’S Wheels, Judy Halebsky
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Formal aspects of haiku inform Roy Kiyooka’s 1969 travel journal Wheels. In contrast to earlier scholarship, this study differentiates haiku traditions in Japan from English language haiku in North America. This framework reveals how Kiyooka employs select aspects of haiku practice to voice his othered cultural location.
Haiku's Reception And Practice In Contemporary North American Poetry, Judy Halebsky, Ayako Takahashi
Haiku's Reception And Practice In Contemporary North American Poetry, Judy Halebsky, Ayako Takahashi
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This article traces the chronological development of haiku translation, which includes Imagism and haiku, the transitional period around the 1950's, the emergence of English Haiku and contemporary haiku practice. To examine the influence of haiku in contemporary American poetry, the discussion includes west coast fi-ee verse poets whose work draws from Basho's haiku in different ways.
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Review Of "Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry", Marianne Rogoff
Review Of "Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry", Marianne Rogoff
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"From the center and edges of the vast and diverse landscape of contemporary Mexico, whose 'boundaries are largely the accidents of history,' the poets in Reversible Monuments ponder the limits of consciousness and search for meaning(s)."