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"A century and a half ago almost no one outside of Japan had heard of the haiku, and even in Tokyo these tiny poems were regarded by some with disdain. Robert Crawford charts this diminutive poem's surprising journey across the world, from Japan to nineteenth-century New Jersey, London and California-and on to twenty-first-century Senegal and Brazil. We grapple with Ezra Pound's modernist haiku, see their transformation by Rabindranath Tagore and the Beat Generation, and newly appreciate the globalised, digital form we know today"--
