Smug Senryu: A Compilation of 240 ~Itemettes~

by Bruce Howard Hamilton

Overview

SMUG SENRYU, a collection of 240 syllabic haikulike 'itemettes,' is intended to be very jokey, very fun. The essential smugness may be seen in how the author of the aggregation strove to cling absolutely to rigorous aspects of **5-7-5** in terms of counting the included syllables; also, each of the individual brief items might seem to insist on being only one basic English sentence. That no wish or attempt ever existed to honor some of Basho's supposed haiku approaches may at least hugely justify the modern and perhaps generic title "senryu"?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781450244350
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/26/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	520 KB

About the Author

Bruce Hamilton, a rather solitary Californian, attended Yale College for two years. He assiduously has devoted most of his literary practicing to such basic pieces as limericks and sonnets. His recent "literary hero" was and still is Jorge Luis Borges, toward whose pessimisms about language and literature he remains sympathetic.