Deconstructing haiku: a dialogue.

From: College Literature | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

 
  Deciphering, normalizing, or tautological, the ways of interpretation, 
  intended in the West to pierce meaning, i. e., to get into it by 
  breaking and entering--and not to shake it, to make it fall like the 
  tooth of that ruminant-of-the-absurd which the Zen apprentice must be, 
  confronting his koan--cannot help failing the haiku; for the work of 
  reading which is attached to it is to suspend language, not to provoke 
  it. (Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs)

There we were, two literary critics out walking in the woods, and somehow the conversation made its way from haiku ...

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