Hello, Friends of Crows!
Welcome to week three 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 136-195 (haiku 541-780).
Here’s a reminder for you to get next month’s book, 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, onto Richard Wright’s haiku!
The theme I want to explore this week is the role of people in Wright’s haiku, but before I elaborate on that, I have to share this stunning poem that jumped out at me this week:
#757
In a quiet forest,
Out of a pool of cold rain,
A rat laps the stars.
What a line!
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