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June 30th, June 30th

ikahime — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:59:52 -0800

30 years ago, Richard Brautigan's last collection of poems, June 30th, June 30th, was published. June 30th is a haibun (a poetic travelog in the tradition of Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior) of his time in Japan, a place he frequented in the 70s after his poetry sadly fell out of favor. A number of excellent tribute pages exist, as well as several fond memoirs & collected essays, not to mention a few imaginary libraries based off of his novel The Abortion: An Historical Romance. "The Hillary Express" I just ordered my first meal curry and rice all by myself in a Japanese restaurant. What a triumph! I feel like an infant taking its first faltering step. Watch out Mount Everest! Tokyo May 16, 1976

Nobody knows Emperors and Queens more intimately

tellurian — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:39:16 -0800

Pictures of 100 poems by 100 poets, explained by a Wet Nurse - Hokusai's pictures describe what the poems do in the head of a wet nurse. With high resolution scans.

Japanese Death Poems

mrs.pants — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:22:57 -0800

My coming My going, Two simple happenings that got entangled... Japanese Death Poems. Small beautiful simple poems written before death. I just discovered them and thought I would share. A few more here

5-7-5-7-7

Katemonkey — Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:31:38 -0800

Tired of haikus? Then it might be time for tanka. Older than haikus, tanka is 31 syllables divided into lines of 5-7-5-7-7. There's been a World Tanka Competition (mostly in Japanese, but the poems are translated into English) and a modern tanka poet, Machi Tawara, has had her work turned into movies, television shows, and a musical revue. All that's needed now is to make it popular in the English-speaking world...

krunk — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:03:43 -0800

A new use for haiku! Ancient Japanese art as spam filter? Habeas seems to think so. Come on kids, let the sorry attempts at poetry begin!