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Highlights
- Here are over 800 haiku by Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy.
- Author(s): Richard Wright
- 320 Pages
- Poetry, American
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About the Book
The haiku of acclaimed novelist Richard Wright, written at the end of his...Book Synopsis
Here are over 800 haiku by Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy. Wright discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African-American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man's relationship, not only to his fellow man as he had in the raw and forceful prose of his fiction, but to the natural world. In all, he wrote over 4,000 haiku. Here are the 817 he personally chose; Wright's haiku, disciplined and steeped in beauty, display a universality that transcends both race and color without ever denying them. Wright wrote his haiku obsessively--in bed, in cafes, in restaurants, in both Paris and the French countryside. They offered him a new form of expression and a new vision: with the threat of death constantly before him, he found in them inspiration, beauty, and insights. Fighting illness and frequently bedridden, deeply upset by the recent loss of his mother, Ella, Wright continued, as his daughter notes in her introduction, "to spin these poems of light out of the gathering darkness."Review Quotes
A clutch of strong flowers. --Gwendolyn Brooks
A clutch of strong flowers.--Gwendolyn Brooks
Dimensions (Overall): 7.2 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 320
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Theme: African American
Format: Paperback
Author: Richard Wright
Language: English
Street Date: February 1, 2012
TCIN: 77307090
UPC: 9781611453492
Item Number (DPCI): 247-40-8050
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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