Could I congratulate Karina on starting one of the longest discussions on
this list in the last year.
There are 55 posts on the subject in my inbox and I have deleted quite a
few.
I think this has to be because it is a striking poem, Karina, and many
people didn't give you the credit you deserve for knowing what you were
doing, because you were using different approaches to poetry with which we
are unfamiliar in the western academic poetry tradition.
People even made the extraordinary mistake of assuming you were a
'beginner'!
Your approaches ar valid, Karina, and it makes me realise how much needed
such lists as John Carley's 'WHCpoetrybridge' list are, in which the attempt
is made to bridge the gap between the western and haiku poetry traditions.
Listening is needed from both sides of this divide.
bw
SallyE
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