Time's Barter Haiku and Senryu - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9350298635 ISBN 13: 9789350298633

Publisher: Harper Collins India

Synopsis

A Beautiful Collection of Haiku

At their best, these haiku - full of rain, land clouds, plums and (like the Japanese) cherries, domestic life, city vistas and uncliched vignettes of the abundant nature for which his land is renowned - richly exemplify the three defining features which Tony Conran has isolated as the essence of haiku: 'loneliness, tenderness and slenderness'. Then there are the characteristic attributes of brevity, concision, simplicity, presence, sensory directness and present-tense immediacy. There's a quality of profound attention, often to minutiae, and a sharpness of observation mediated by down-to-earth, unembellished language.The quality of his haiku writing has already been recognized in Wales, where the leading cultural magazine Planet: the Welsh Internationalist has recently published in its pages a selection of his haiku. One looks forward, now, to seeing what ripples they might make on the still youthful haiku scene of India.

A Beautiful Collection of Haiku

At their best, these haiku - full of rain, land clouds, plums and (like the Japanese) cherries, domestic life, city vistas and uncliched vignettes of the abundant nature for which his land is renowned - richly exemplify the three defining features which Tony Conran has isolated as the essence of haiku: 'loneliness, tenderness and slenderness'. Then there are the characteristic attributes of brevity, concision, simplicity, presence, sensory directness and present-tense immediacy. There's a quality of profound attention, often to minutiae, and a sharpness of observation mediated by down-to-earth, unembellished language.The quality of his haiku writing has already been recognized in Wales, where the leading cultural magazine Planet: the Welsh Internationalist has recently published in its pages a selection of his haiku. One looks forward, now, to seeing what ripples they might make on the still youthful haiku scene of India.

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About the Author

KYNPHAM SING NONGKYNRIH writes poems, short fiction and drama in Khasi and English. He has a total of thirteen publications in Khasi. His collections of poetry in English include Moments, The Sieve and The Yearning of Seeds (HarperCollins). He is the author of Around the Hearth: Khasi Legends (Penguin) and the co-editor of Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India (Penguin). His poetry has been widely published in national and international journals, including The New Welsh Review (Cardiff); Planet: The Welsh Internationalist (Aberystwyth, Wales); Karavan (Stockholm); PEN International (London); The Literary Review (New Jersey); Wasafiri (London); Modern Haiku (Lincoln, USA); Simply Haiku (Pasadena, USA); Poetry International Web (Rotterdam); and The Heron's Nest (Nassau, USA). His awards include the first Veer Shankar Shah-Raghunath Shah National Award for literature (Madhya Pradesh, 2008) and the first North-East Poetry Award (Tripura, 2004). He also received a Fellowship for Outstanding Artists from the Government of India in 2000.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Collins India
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9350298635
• ISBN 13: 9789350298633
• Binding: Paperback