HAIKU: THIS OTHER WORLD.(Review) From: Black Issues in Higher Education | Date: July 8, 1999| Author: BREVARD, LISA PERTILLAR | COPYRIGHT 1999 Cox, Matthews & Associates. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

HAIKU: THIS OTHER WORLD By Richard Wright Arcade Publishing, 1998 New York City 304 pages Hard cover: $23.50

Upon his death at the age of 52 in Paris on Nov. 28, 1960, Richard Wright, author and subject of Black Boy, left a literary legacy of novels, short stories, essays, and poetry. Part of his poetic legacy is the haiku -- a specialized form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllabic structure -- more than 4,000 of which he wrote over the la...