Includes a selection of Richard Wright's haiku on pages 153-171. Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index.
Contents:
Part I: History and criticism ; The genesis and development of haiku in Japan ; Basho and haiku poetics ; Yone Noguchi and Japanese poetics ; Ezra Pound, imagism, and haiku ; Haiku and haiku criticism in English ; Wright's haiku as English poems ; Wright's haiku and classic haiku poetics ; Wright's haiku and modernist poetics ; Wright's haiku and Africa ; Wright's haiku and Senryu -- Part II: Selected haiku by Richard Wright.
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