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The tanka anthology : tanka in English from around the world / edited by Michael McClintock, Pamela Miller Ness & Jim Kacian ; with an introduction by Michael McClintock.

Title
The tanka anthology : tanka in English from around the world / edited by Michael McClintock, Pamela Miller Ness & Jim Kacian ; with an introduction by Michael McClintock.
Publication
Winchester, VA : Red Moon Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Kacian, Jim.
  • McClintock, Michael.
  • Ness, Pamela Miller.
Description
lv, 231 pages; 19 cm
Summary
"The tanka anthology is a compendium of more than 800 poems by nearly 70 poets from around the world, the foremost practitioners of the ancient and modern genre of tanka. While poets continue to experiment, the contemporary tanka in English may be described as typically an untitled free-verse short poem having anywhere from about twelve to thirty-one syllables arranged in words and phrases over five lines, crafted to stand alone as a unitary, aesthetic whole - a complete poem. Excepting those written in a minimalist style, a tanka is about two breaths in length when read aloud. During the last thirty years, it has emerged as a robust short form that is identifiable as a distinct verse type while being extremely variable in its details."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • American poetry
  • English poetry
  • Waka
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. xlix-liii).
ISBN
1893959406
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries