9781559709057

Haiku: This Other World

Richard Wright

ISBN 10: 1559709057 / 1-55970-905-7
ISBN 13: 9781559709057
Publisher: Arcade Pub
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Softcover
Editorial Reviews:
Review:

"[T]his collection is a marvelous refutation of those critics who deemed [Wright's] literary career to have come to an end with his departure from the United States in 1946....Undoubtedly, HAIKU: This Other World is the best realization, both in form and content, of the author's ideal of 'poetic realism.' It is also a stepping-stone or words leading towards a new world, another world."

Sylvie Kande, Quarterly Black Review of Books, May/June 1999

Review:

"Wright's haiku begin to fill in the missing part of his legacy....[T]hey reveal a side of Wright that the public never saw. We see his soul struggling to hang onto itself, to remember what it feels like to be a person, not a spokesman."

Anthony Walton, Utne Reader, March/April 2000