Hello, Haiku Readers!
Welcome to week four, our last week, of discussing Richard Wright’s Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon. You can find the discussions from the past three weeks here:
This week we’re covering pages 196-300 (haiku 780-817, and the Afterword).
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.
Next week will cover the first 46 poems.
This week we only have a handful of haiku. I’ve chosen to focus on the poems where Wright treats nothing or the absence of something as his subject. While there are many poems throughout the collection that fit this bill, let’s look at a handful from this last section.
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