Creative Blooms 18: Tsugawa Eriko
A first translation into English of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
Creative Blooms 17: Remystification (Part 3) — “Haiku is for Freedom”
Check out Part 3 of Richard Gilbert's exploration of Remystification in haiku . . .
Creative Blooms 16: Remystification (Part 2) — “The Cosmopolitan Haiku”
“Adorno used to say, ‘Intolerance of ambiguity is the sign of an authoritarian personality.' . . . "
Creative Blooms 15: Remystification (Part 1) — “Haiku Poem, Haiku Mind”
“Becoming what you are presupposes that you do not have the slightest idea what you are.” — Nietzsche (1888) Remystification, a term introduced in Poetry as Consciousness (2018), indicates a contemplation of open-mindedness preliminary to analyses of haiku.[1. In Gilbert,…
Creative Blooms 14: On Animal Rhetoric (Reconnecting)
From Animal Presences, by James Hillman, “A Correspondence with John Stockwell” John Stockwell: In several of your books you have characterized the turn to the East, the return to the land, the return to the primitive, and the turn to…
Creative Blooms 12: Satō Ayaka (Part 2)
A first translation into English of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
Creative Blooms 11: Satō Ayaka (Part 1)
A first translation into English of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
Creative Blooms 9: Tanaka Ami (Part 2)
More of a first taste of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
Creative Blooms 8: Tanaka Ami (Part 1)
A first translation into English of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
Creative Blooms 7: Surprise of the In-Between
Haiku as the perfect expression of in-betweenness . . .
Creative Blooms 5: Poetry, Sacredness, Sanctity
Where do we find ourselves in the ‘specious present’ if not in a haiku . . . ?
Creative Blooms 4: Kōno Saki (Part 2)
A first translation into English of an up and coming Japanese poet . . .
Creative Blooms 3: Kōno Saki (Part 1)
A first translation into English of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
Creative Blooms 2: Poetry & Protection
Richard Gilbert explores some of the recent creative blossoms on the edges of English-language haiku . . .
Creative Blooms 1: Distance from others, closeness to self.
Richard Gilbert explores some of the recent creative blossoms on the edges of English-language haiku . . .
Coming Soon: New THF Feature Creative Blooms
Richard Gilbert will soon be offering Creative Blooms to the THF readership . . .