Ezra Pound's Make It New
lingers in my mind
World Kigo Database (Ezra Pound)
Note: Ezra Pound (1885-1972), the originator of the slogan "Make It New," who lived in Europe, greatly influenced the development of modern literature.
His In a Station of the Metro has been endlessly researched by scholars, literary critics, and poets alike…In his most widely-read book, The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, William Higginson rightly emphasizes that Ezra Pound's metro poem is the "first published hokku in English" and "very important to its author`s development" – an excerpt from my essay entitled Three Readings of Ezra Pound's "Metro Haiku'"
The Yijing, also known as the Book of Changes, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts.
