Interesting, in light of this conversation, that the following is
happening this week at my university:
Japan - Canada Cultural Exchange
All interested members of the university and general public are warmly
invited to attend the Japanese-Canada Cultural Exchange Calligraphy
Exhibition on April 2 - 5. In addition to the calligraphy exhibition,
please join us for a special public lecture and Tanka Writing
Workshop offered by Dr. Sonja Arntzen, Professor Emeritus (University
of Toronto) and former professor in East Asian Studies at the
University of Alberta!
Tanka Writing Workshop (April 3rd, 12 – 1pm, Room 206, Pembina Hall)
This workshop will analyze examples of waka and tanka from the
Japanese poetic tradition and provide selected readings of modern
tanka in English. Through a series of exercises, participants will
experiment with producing their own tanka!
Registration is required for the workshop. Please register at [log in to unmask]
by Wednesday, April 3rd
Public Lecture – April 2nd, 12 – 1pm, Senate Chamber, ARTS Building
The Japanese Lyric Waka and Its Long Journey into English Poetry
Practice
The adoption of haiku as a form for writing poetry in English is much
better known than the case of waka, or tanka, the modern term for this
thirty-one syllable form. With a 1400 year history within Japan, waka
is recently attracting an increasing number of adherents in the
English-writing world. This lecture will briefly outline the
development of waka within Japan’s classical tradition and its
transformation to tanka in the modern period, documenting shifts in
style and emotive quality. The lecture will speculate upon the
importance of both haiku and tanka in the revitalization of poetry
writing as a practice for every-day life in our prose dominated modern
world.
Thus do we prepare for more (of the same)...?
Doug
On 31-Mar-08, at 1:34 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> I think the problem is trying to sound "Japanese," which means
> indulging in an imagined simplicity.
Douglas Barbour
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Latest books:
Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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Wednesdays'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
to rid me of
the ugh in
thought
i spell anew
weave the world
out of the or
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