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CONTRIBUTORS
Adam Donaldson Powell
azSacra zaRathustra
Floriana Hall
Joseph S. Spence, Sr.
Lynn Srongin
Magdalena Dale
Max Verhart
Patricia Prime
Paul Pfleuger, Jr.
Petar Tchouhov
Rhoda Galgiani
Santosh Kumar
Sayumi Kamakura
Suzie Palmer
Valentin Nicolitov
Vasile Moldovan
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The Poetic Achievement of Ban'ya Natsuishi
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Edited by:
Dr. Santosh Kumar Binding: Paperback
(pp: 124) ISBN: 978-81-8253-149-9 Availability: In Stock
(Ships within 1 to 2
days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net Pub. Date:
2009 Condition: New
Description: This is a
full-scale critical analysis of the haiku world of
Ban’ya Natsuishi - its philosophy, symbolic
language, chief tenets based on his haiku
collections, and written by eminent authors in the
field. The book, well organized and beautifully
written, is a pioneer effort, unrivaled and
indispensable to understand Ban’ya as a poet. The
Poetic Achievement of Ban’ya Natsuishi
consists of sixteen critical essays on Ban’ya
Natsuishi. The book is a comprehensive study of
Ban’ya’s poetry. The maturity of the essays
included in The Poetic Achievement of Ban’ya
Natusishi is striking. They are well written
with an independent, inquiring spirit free from
narrow critical doctrines. The concise discussions
of the principal works of Ban’ya, written by
subject experts and foremost critics in the haiku
field from around the world, provide insightful
critical analysis, valuable for students and
professors alike. No doubt, the book will enable
us to delve more deeply than ever into Ban’ya’s
work.
Karunesh
Kumar Agarwal was very much interested in
publishing a critical book on Ban’ya, one of the
greatest Japanese haiku poets, whose extraordinary
genius elevated the haiku to an art form of
unusual beauty. He worked to contact several
renowned haiku poets and critics for critical
essays revealing Ban’ya’s classic journey of
poetic self-discovery. This arduous task was very
aptly done by him, and it is a special joy for
Karunesh and myself to bring this book to life.
Previously
called hokku, haiku was given its current
name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the
end of the 19th century. "A haiku is the
expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which
we see into the life of things" (
Reginald Horace Blyth). Traditional haiku poets
like Basho, Buson and Issa used haiku to express
their feelings of Zen. The increasing popularity
of haiku is evident by its influence on Ezra
Pound. The impact of haiku on Pound is clearly
visible in his poem "In a Station of the
Metro":
The
apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals
on a wet, black bough.
Different
critical articles included in The Poetic
Achievement of Ban’ya Natsuishi emphasize
that Ban’ya is the most widely admired haiku
poet. Ban’ya in his haiku is concentrating on
‘distillation of a moment". There seems to
be an obvious increase of critical interest in Ban’ya’s
haiku poetry in light of the controversy which
surrounds Flying Pope, a landmark in Haiku
literature. Who is Flying Pope? On this point a
whole book needs to be written. The fact is that Flying
Pope is a poetic mask to comprehend reality
beneath its surface. The critical essays included
in The Poetic Achievement of Ban’ya Natsuishi
explore Ban’ya’s most elusive flavor in the
genre of three unrhymed lines and
"free-form" haiku. The greatness of Ban’ya
as a haiku poet is due to the simple truth that he
made the genre immediately accessible to wider
audiences. I am deeply thankful and very grateful
to Adam D. Powell, azSacra zaRathustra, Floriana
Hall, Joseph S. Spence, Sr., Lynn Strongin,
Magdalena Dale, Max Verhart, Patricia Prime, Paul
Pfleuger, Jr., Petar Tchouhov, Rhoda Galgiani,
Sayumi Kamakura, Suzie Palmer, Vasile Moldovan and
Valentin Nicoližov.
The
Poetic Achievement of Ban’ya Natsuishi
is the first full-length critical analysis of Ban’ya’s
contribution as a haiku poet. The book presents
contemporary responses to Ban’ya’s work, and I
hope this will be immensely beneficial to
students, researchers and haiku composers. The
critics included in The Poetic Achievement of
Ban’ya Natsuishi have paid commendable
attention to the structure, thematic development
in his haiku and innovative imagery. As a result,
I trust we will now have a greater understanding
of philosophical and psychological depths,
complexity and originality of Ban’ya’s poetry.
Santosh
Kumar
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