Photo by Helmut Newton
Wednesday Haiku, Week 42
wine-flushed
the moon
a severed head
Judy Robinson
Wedding Photo found in rubble - Shuji Kajiyama / AP
after the quake
cherry blossoms shingle
the peace pagoda
Terri French
Photo by Jason Hsu
peace to the world
from time immemorial...
cherry blossoms
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
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Something about that top pic really bothers me. Not sure what it is. But its disturbing.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Perhaps it's too early in the morning for the top photo.
ReplyDeleteVery uncomfortable--and I don't know why. Perhaps that adds to my discomfort.
Why did you select that one, Don?
Fred (and Charles),
ReplyDeleteHmn, didn't realize that this would be so disturbing. So here's the reason ...
The first poem also has a disturbing quality about it and the piece of cloth pictured, oddly perhaps, seemed to recall the moon, a severed moon, if you will.
Obviously, it is off-putting in maybe a subliminal way since it can't be put into words.
Other thoughts on this one?
Don
The eyes closed, the head tilted just so, the blood-red lips -- could be the start of a death mask. Chilling.
ReplyDeletePardon me:
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I just saw on the NHK WORLD channel
DONALD KEENE a right-now interview !
WOWOW !
I tuned in just as he was finishing talking about a temple (I think) in Kyoto that Basho was connected to...
He is now Professor Emeritus at Columbia University !!!!
and:
ReplyDeletethe Keene interview is now on the net:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/19_21.html
and
I think
that I saw that he has permanently moved to Japan ....
YEAH... this is very right now a happening:
ReplyDeletehttp://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/columbia-professors-retirement-is-big-news-in-japan/
and
Brooklyn is where my mother's family grew up
(she was born in 1915)
and all of my closest cousins went to James Madison High School !!!
up around as I recall, 173 & Longfellow Avenue. same school Donald Keene went to
Jim,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the note ... art, a mirror, a river, a blank wall, an open field ... a photograph, a poem.
Don
Ed:
ReplyDeleteWe must of flicked on to the channel from some other show at the same time ... I caught part of the interview, too, I was so busy explaining to Laurie who he was - stuttering with amazement - that I missed some more of it. Thanks for the link.
Wow, indeed.
Don
Oh, the interview is much abbreviated from the one on TV. Will see if I can find the full thing.
ReplyDeletewell
ReplyDeletehere is one interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXILZNrX_a4
and looks like more over on the right
not the one I saw on NHK
and
I think
in the one that we are looking for that he said
that he was moving to Sendai & becoming a Japanese citizen
methinks that he just might eventually reside in Basho's little hut.
the one next to the trinket shop
The one next to the trinket shop, the one with the lovely roof?
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kobayashi_Issa-Storehouse.jpg
Thanks, Ed.
and
ReplyDeletehere is his opening remarks at his last class..
April 26, 2011 (exactly one week after my 70 th birth-day):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXILZNrX_a4
and the NOH plays he mentions?
I have a copy of his (as editor/translator) 1970
"20 Plays of the No Theater" a publisher's pre-publication hard-back that was sent to Rudd Fleming who gave it to "goose" me along
beautiful sketches in this book
oppppps eeee daisie...
ReplyDeletehere is the "real" last class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWQe74Bmo3s&feature=related
we called classes like this "seminars"
six-eight "students" sitting around a large 150 year-old wooden table
with Eliott Coleman
moderating ( or is it "modulating'?)
sitting to DK's left ... who's the cute girl ?
K.
Thanks, Ed ...
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