Envoys

22
Aug

Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, Envoy 4 is being reposted as a “new” post when, in fact, it was originally posted on August 10th, 2009.
In addition, all of the comments left for this post from August 10th to August 21st had to be deleted. They have been copied and saved, however, and can be [...]

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14
Jul

It has become the norm on troutswirl to switch gears, and so I’d like to do so once again and present a new installment of Envoys (a description of which is just below this note). I had wanted to present this series with more frequency, and hope to from now on, but because of some [...]

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6
Jun

Envoys is a section that is devoted to looking at individual, non-English haiku from the 20th and 21st centuries. For an introduction to this section, see Envoys.

• Envoy 1 (part I)
• Envoy 1 (part 2)
• Envoy 1 (part 3)
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Envoy 2

by Scott Metz

I became aware of the haiku of Tomas Tranströmer through the recent publication of [...]

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26
May

Envoys is a section that is devoted to looking at individual, non-English haiku from the 20th and 21st centuries. For an introduction to this section, see Envoys.

• Envoy 1 (part I)
• Envoy 1 (part 2)

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This is the final part of Envoy 1.
Thanks again to everyone who participated for sharing their time and thoughts.
Additional [...]

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18
May

Envoys is a section that is devoted to looking at individual, non-English haiku from the 20th and 21st centuries. For an introduction to this section, see Envoys.

• Envoy 1 (part I)
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Envoy 1 (part 2)

銀行員ら朝より蛍光す烏賊のごとく
ginkōin-ra asa yori keikō su ika no-gotoku
Kaneko Tōta 金子兜太

This hyper-syllabic haiku is found in the section “Kobe [...]

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