{"id":168,"date":"2011-01-21T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T01:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=168"},"modified":"2011-01-21T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T01:24:54","slug":"season-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Season Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A small group meets at my house once a month to talk about poetry. We take turns to choose the topic and lead the discussion. Yesterday\u2019s topic was haiku, a classic Japanese form. We considered the arguments about Robert Hass\u2019s poems in recent issues of <em>Poetry<\/em>, and agreed that the small fragments quoted have to be considered in the context of the whole poem. They should not be thought of as haiku. We read translations, by Hass, Jane Hirshfield and others, of the great Japanese masters. We pondered <a title=\"Snyder interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haiku-heute.de\/Archiv\/Gary_Snyder_06-2007\/Gary_Snyder_e_06-2007\/gary_snyder_e_06-2007.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Snyder\u2019s comment<\/a>:\u00a0 \u201cI do not think we should even \u2018think\u2019 haiku in other languages and cultures. We should think brief, or short poems. [Haiku] has elements that can indeed be developed in the poetries of other languages and cultures, but not by slavish imitation. To get haiku into other languages, get to the \u2018heart\u2019 of haiku, which has something to do with Zen practice and with practiced observation\u2014not mere counting of syllables.\u201d We read some of Snyder\u2019s haiku-like fragments and some of Hirshfield\u2019s \u201cPebbles,\u201d her tiny poems that<a title=\"Hirshfield statement\" href=\"http:\/\/galileo.stmarys-ca.edu\/bhillman\/documents\/Hirshfield_J.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> she describes thus<\/a>:\u00a0 \u201cA pebble \u2026 is seemingly simple, but also a bit recalcitrant: it isn\u2019t quite completely present until it has been finished inside the reader\u2019s reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We also talked about some of the rules of classical Japanese haiku: the \u201cturning\u201d that often occurs, from outward observation to inside the poet\u2019s mind, and the use of <em>kigo<\/em>, words or phrases associated with a particular season. We decided it would be fun to come up with a set of season words that would fit the environment of the Mendocino  Coast. Here\u2019s the start of our list. We&#8217;d welcome additions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whales swimming south<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whales swimming north with calves<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Blennosperma <\/em>spreading gold over Glass Beach Headlands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small group meets at my house once a month to talk about poetry. We take turns to choose the topic and lead the discussion. Yesterday\u2019s topic was haiku, a classic Japanese form. We considered the arguments about Robert Hass\u2019s poems in recent issues of Poetry, and agreed that the small fragments quoted have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,59,8,7,19],"tags":[118,120,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}