Re: [Leica] what is haiku

[Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>]

>Michael Gerard wrote:
>"The definition I've always liked and taught my students is "single breath
>poetry."
>...Haiku are meant to convey a single image without personal commentary by the
>author, i.e. the poem should not have an overt message or theme, but
>merely seek to
>paint a picture in the mind. There are many similarities between Haiku and the
>Imagist movement founded by Ezra Pound."
>
>As in:

>In a station of the Metro
>The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
>Petals on a wet, black bough.
>
>Definitely photographic, so I like the analogy with macro photography, or
>any other
>photography that extracts a momentary detail from Time's otherwise blurred
>continuum.
>Not so sure about measuring by breaths, though -- that's more Charles
>Olsen to me.
>But, as they say, anything goes.
>emanuel


With all due respect, aside from the above poem, what Imagist works
resemble haiku?

My guess would be few to none, though I'd love to stand corrected.

Guy
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