Poetry in the Moment: A Tanka about Writing

Monday, October 11, 2010

A Tanka about Writing

English Original:

sunset pierces
the broken window
my poem dead
on the coffee-stained desk ...
once worded, now naked

German Translation by Dietmar Tauchner

Sonnenuntergang durchdringt
das zerbrochene Fenster
mein Gedicht tot
auf dem Schreibtisch mit Kaffeeflecken ...
zuvor noch Wörter, jetzt nackt

Chrysanthemum, #8

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My book is now available through www.lulu.com [Liu's] haiku resonates the Asian spirit, and makes use of aesthetics in a continuum of time that is permanent and impermanent; the process more important than the subjective specificity of object bias found in most Anglo-Western haiku like poems. His poetry demand to be interpreted by the informed reader. They do not tell all, are not based on an “aha” moment, and have no definitive ending. More importantly they give meaning and voice to the unsaid, the magic inherent in Japanese poetry. -- Poetry Review by Robert D. Wilson, Editor-in-chief of Simply Haiku.

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