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The Body Politic: Linked Forms an Anthology

Featured poet Christina Chin!! Heterodox Haiku Journal and Nun Prophet Press presents, an eclectic and imaginative collection of responsive verses and chain poetry from around the world showcasing core techniques and structures within English approaches to contrapuntal styles of classical and contemporary Japanese poetic traditions, from renga, renku, kasen, tan-renga of antiquity through more recent emergent western iterations such as the rengay. An essential resource for those hoping to better understand the roots and foundations of haiku, senryu, tanka, waka modes, furthermore highlighting many facets and core machinery, providing wonderful examples of the countless complexities and nuances the understanding of which is critical to connecting stanzas in different types of shorter and longer sequences, individual and in meaningful collaborative writing! Within you will discover countless insights into eastern micropoetic philosophies and practices which can be just as beneficial to construction of solo material, and tie directly into concepts of close and distant correspondence, toriawase, pattern and ground. A veritable treasure trove of synergy and surprise, this book can prove

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