Word: haiku
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...follow waiters and salesclerks around for half an hour to get an intimate view of what their lives were like. "I wrote it as an exercise - just for fun," he says. Writing in real time, he adds, is easier than he thought it would be: "It's like a haiku or a sonnet. The rules are fun. And you don't have to deal with exposition. You don't have to lie with exits and entrances and wrapping things...
...Hasty Pudding thespian, was the loudest audience member with his glass of Kenwood merlot. After informing the crowd that he’d “been having some wine” (get out!), Kevin presented some haikus that, charitably, fell under a loose definition of “haiku.” “This Spring I’ll wear high heels / I make a hideous girl / but that’s OK,” he told he audience. And he was right...
...write poems with attention to what sounds good. Sometimes this means that they will have meter or rhyme. Right now I’ve been writing poems using syllabics where each stanza has a pattern of numbers of syllables in each lines—a haiku is a type of syllabic poem. Marianne Moore uses this form a lot in her early poetry. She’s known for precision, she’s interested in classification of things...
...snow-capped peaks, visits to historic shrines and stays at more inns, some now museums. We buy cheap sushi lunches at small-town supermarkets. Each evening, stone lanterns, which once marked village boundaries, are lit to signal the day's end. Summits are adorned with stones carved with haiku, such as this passage left by Princess Kazonomiya in 1864 on her way to an arranged marriage, escorted by a retinue of 10,000: "As we rush through the pass I look back towards the capital and ponder the transience of existence...
...last survivors of the Bataan death march from their prisoner-of-war camp, has raced up the best-seller lists. (Ghost Soldiers is a useful corrective to Pearl Harbor. In the film, the Japanese navy appears to have been staffed by the sort of man who writes a regretful haiku on the horrors of war before breakfast; in the book, Japanese soldiers burn prisoners alive for fun.) And after much dithering, ground will shortly be broken on the Mall in Washington for a monument to those who fought in World...