Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions

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Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African American haiku. Ce Rosenow analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with a variety of other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. An examination of Moores haibun, a Japanese form combining prose and haiku, reveals the further development of the African American aesthetic created in his individual poems. Ultimately, the author argues that Moores decades-long engagement with haiku and his prolific publication history solidify haiku as an established form in African American poetry.

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Ce Rosenows Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions is the first scholarly book dedicated solely to the study of Lenard D. Moore, a prolific and gifted poet well-known especially in contemporary English haiku world. It offers the focused examination of Moores use of haiku techniques as well as his artistic attitude toward nature and human nature. This remarkable book explores how Moore develops different aspects of his experiences into expressions in the forms of jazzku, bluesku, gospelku, ekphrastic and elegiac haiku, haibun, and sequences, recognizes his importance in presenting aesthetics, history, and southern culture to expand our understanding of African American traditions, and sheds light for the future investigations of Moores work.

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Ce Rosenow is coordinator of the Lane Honors Program at Lane Community College.