Tag: writing

• * Masaoka Shiki & life sketches

  along this darkling country road comes the lonely voice of a coachman every so often urging his horse on **** The above lyric poem is by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), one of the innovators of the modern tanka form *.  Tanka is a Japanese poetic form that differs from haiku in that there is room for […]

  José Angel Araguz

  April 30, 2012

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  haiku, Japanese poetry, Jose Angel Araguz, life sketches, literature, lyric poem, Masaoka Shiki, poetry, tanka, writing

• * some Rimbaud thoughts & eating your own heart out

  I is an other. – Arthur Rimbaud *** Mr. Rimbaud may be responsible for our contemporary poetry workshops.  The spirit of these words can be heard around any discussion of a poem in terms of its speaker: the speaker seems real; the speaker isn’t believable; it feels as is if the speaker has issues with […]

  José Angel Araguz

  April 28, 2012

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  A Season in Hell, Arthur Rimbaud, Galway Kinnell, Heraclitus, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, poetry, poetry workshop, Stephen Crane, writing