Too Much of a Good Thing;Is Popular Culture Choking Haiku's Spirit? From: The Washington Post | Date: September 6, 1991 | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

In the old days, masters of haiku would use the ancient three-line poetic form to evoke images of frogs leaping into old ponds or of stolen glimpses of the Milky Way through a crack in a paper screen.

Not today's poets.

Try this from Kyoji Kobayashi, a 33-year-old poet:

"A dying nation,/ an eraser that smells/ like bananas."

Or this from 71-year-old Tota Kaneko, a pioneer of avant-garde haiku:

"Each mouth beautiful/ a band of jazzmen playing/ the end of summer."

Other modern poets, perhaps in a spirit akin to e.e. cummings, even freely use symbols ranging from circles to stars in ...

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