Western Death Haiku

Western Death Haiku

Death haiku; epitaphs; jisei; haiku, English

Using Yoel Hoffman's Japanese Death Poems as a guide, George Swede looks for and often finds equivalents for the various styles among haiku written in the West, then gives examples of the purely western tradition, the short epitaph poem.

Swede, George

http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/node/540

Simply Haiku

Republished by New Zealand Poetry Society in 2010

2007

All rights reserved. This essay is republished here with the kind permission of the author.

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