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Title
A Haiku Workshop by Helen Shigeko Isaacson
Subject
Haiku Lessons
Description
From the Introduction by Jan Kellendonk - After an inspiring lecture about haiku at the university of Groningen (1982) I asked the lecturer, Mrs. Helen Shigeko Isaacson, a nisei, an American with Japanese parents, if she would teach my friend and me haiku on a regular basis. Without answering she turned to the professor in charge of the language project, Donald Graham Stuart, and said to him, “can you believe it, these guys want me as their teacher!”. Teaching was a thing she never had thought of herself, as the whole project was a rather academic attempt of automatic translation of Japanese into English and visa versa.
She took on the job, noticed quickly that Dutch men approaching 30 need a lot of preparation and did her utmost in creating educational material. Luckily for her some female students became part of the study group over time, more gifted and more promising ones, yet we all were not native speakers of English.
In this document I collected the very first attempts of the study group of making a collection of haiku.
She took on the job, noticed quickly that Dutch men approaching 30 need a lot of preparation and did her utmost in creating educational material. Luckily for her some female students became part of the study group over time, more gifted and more promising ones, yet we all were not native speakers of English.
In this document I collected the very first attempts of the study group of making a collection of haiku.
Creator
Kellendonk, Jan
Source
Donation by Jan Kellendonk
Date
1983
Format
pdf
Language
eng
Type
book