Richard Wright's Haiku Week #2
Looking at what Wright loves to write about
Greetings, Poetry Book Readers!
Welcome to week two of discussing Richard Wright’s Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon. You can find the discussion from week one here. This week we’re covering pages 53-135 (haiku 209-540).
Even though we have two more weeks with Wright, I wanted to give you a heads-up about the next book. Next month’s book will be, Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back by Alicia Cook. This unique book is not a collection of haiku but instead features two halves, where the second half is full of remixes and blackout poems based on the poems from the first half.
Now, back to Wright.
Before I get to my thoughts on this section of haiku, I have to share a poem that stood out from the reading because of the weather we’re having in my slice of Oregon this weekend, as we remain stuck at home:
#249
The sleet stops droning
And the still silence forbids
Even the sun to shine.
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