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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Jackie, I wish you much success with your final editing and with publishing your book. I am happy you are doing this. That is an impressive and important thing to be doing right now. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Yes, once you become aware of the history and roots of tanka and haiku in English, it makes an enormous difference in what you do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I was highly influenced as a high school student – went through school in the 50’s and was very different than any other student I knew – I was into the San Francisco and NYC scene and was familiar with all the poets doing experiments in Eastern and even ancient works, and mythology. I was completely absorbed in those writers – and the poetry. I never knew anyone else who knew anything about poetry in those early years – but was doing my own thing, nevertheless.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>A highlight of my life in the early 90s was that I met Ginsberg in Colorado – I was attending a conference for museum management at the time, and Ginsberg was there for the big celebration of a show at the Boulder Library – He died not long after that. I used to see him on TV in the fifties/sixties – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The only thing I cared about in high school was Shakespeare and the Beats. Nothing else – and I mean nothing else.lol<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Lynda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Stylist <stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jackie via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 30, 2020 5:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <stylist@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Jackie <jackieleepoet@cox.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] PS_More information on writing Haiku and Tanka<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Lynda,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks again. This information almost makes me wish I had not branched away from poetry to concentrate on my book, “Lizard in the Bean Sauce,” which is about our five years in Uganda, east Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I am on the second edit, and still in need of cutting about 200 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>In this time of physical separation, it is a good time to stay focused on our projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I am learning so much that is new to me about memoirs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>I do intend to go back to my Haiku to re-evaluate them as a result of your websites.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Jacqueline Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> Jenny Xie<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Stylist [<a href="mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Linda Lambert via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 30, 2020 12:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Writers' Division Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">stylist@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:llambert@zoominternet.net">llambert@zoominternet.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stylist] PS_More information on writing Haiku and Tanka<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>P.S.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>I’ve had many conversations for quite a few years with editors of tanka and haiku journals.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>This is a portion of my conversation with an editor in the UK who produces a good magazine for this Japanese form.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>His conversation with me provides more insight into this form – <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>QUOTE is pasted below.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>“Hi Lynda, it's very nice to meet you. Thank you for your message. <br><br>Tanka and haiku in English tend to be free form, minimalist poems that use a combination of juxtaposition, sensory experiences, images and ambiguity to achieve their desired effect. <br>There are no fixed syllable counts. The English and Japanese language is so different in terms of how sound units are counted. The Japanese term for a phonetic sound unit is called an 'On' or 'Onji'. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br>Here is a helpful link that points out the differences between the 'On' and and English syllable . . .<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_%28Japanese_prosody%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_%28Japanese_prosody%29</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br>There are some western poets who do write in the traditional syllabic style, but they are few and far between, and not usually well represented in many of the more established journals <br>or showcased in the numerous anthologies that are produced each year.<br><br>Traditional Japanese poets still write in the syllabic style and use official kigo from a officially recognized sajiki, but there are plenty of Japanese poets who are not traditional<br>and write haiku which are reminiscent of what is being produced by poets in the west. 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