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Imitations of haiku
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Imitations of haiku
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Imitations of haiku
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A prose that refers to poetry in a mixture of different literary influences. Poetry embraces prose in an explosion of metaphors, similes, hermeticism and symbolism. You can find intonations, reminiscences from Shakespeare, Joyce, Alvaro Mutis, Aleksandr Blok, Dante, Petrarch, Mandelstam, Henri Michaux, René Char, Baudelaire, Paul Celan, Eugenio Montale, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, Yeats and others. The style and content of these fragments of poetic prose refer to the Asian tradition of anonymous mystical writings, the reference to the haiku tradition is related to the form and lyrical intensity of the fragments that concentrate in a few words, metaphors, similes, symbols a multitude of meanings and references.