Re: On Writing Haiku
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> Good Time Charley wrote: > Will Dockery wrote: > >> Haiku instructions from Jack Kerouac... >> >> http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4260/the-art-of-fiction-no-41-jack-kerouac >> >> "Haiku? You want to hear haiku? You see you got to compress into three short >> lines a great big story. First you start with a haiku situation"so you see a >> leaf, as I told her the other night, falling on the back of a sparrow during >> a great big October wind storm. A big leaf falls on the back of a little >> sparrow. How you going to compress that into three lines? Now in Japanese >> you got to compress it into seventeen syllables. We don’t have to do that in >> American"or English"because we don’t have the same syllabic Bullsh*t that >> your Japanese language has. So you say: “Little sparrow”"you don’t have to >> say little"everybody knows a sparrow is little because they fall so you >> say'..." -Jack Kerouac >> >> Excerpted for example, discussion and educational fair use purposes... >> guidelines from the top shelf. >> > > > Old Jack...…………. The one and only. 😏 This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=659475215#659475215 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655