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    Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku
    Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku
    Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku
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    Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku

    By Gerald Vizenor

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    A collection of original haiku from a preeminent Native American poet and novelist.

    Favor of Crows is a collection of new and previously published original haiku poems over the past forty years. Gerald Vizenor has earned a wide and devoted audience for his poetry. In the introductory essay the author compares the imagistic poise of haiku with the early dream songs of the Anishinaabe, or Chippewa. Vizenor concentrates on these two artistic traditions, and by intuition he creates a union of vision, perception, and natural motion in concise poems; he creates a sense of presence and at the same time a naturalistic trace of impermanence.

    The haiku scenes in Favor of Crows are presented in chapters of the four seasons, the natural metaphors of human experience in the tradition of haiku in Japan. Vizenor honors the traditional practice and clever tease of haiku, and conveys his appreciation of Matsuo Basho and Yosa Buson in these two haiku scenes, "calm in the storm / master basho soaks his feet /water striders," and "cold rain / field mice rattle the dishes / buson's koto."

    Vizenor is inspired by the sway of concise poetic images, natural motion, and by the transient nature of the seasons in native dream songs and haiku. "The heart of haiku is a tease of nature, a concise, intuitive, and an original moment of perception," he declares in the introduction to Favor of Crows. "Haiku is visionary, a timely meditation and an ironic manner of creation. That sense of natural motion in a haiku scene is a wonder, the catch of impermanence in the seasons." Check for the online reader's companion at favorofcrows.site.wesleyan.edu.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 14, 2015
    ISBN9780819574336
    Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku
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    Gerald Vizenor

    Gerald Vizenor is a citizen of the White Earth Nation of the Anishinaabeg in Minnesota. In his career, Vizenor has written over 40 books in a variety of genres, including 16 novels and innumerable essays. His novels, poetry, and short story collections from Wesleyan University Press include Waiting for Wovoka, Satie on the Seine, Native Tributes, Treaty Shirts, Favor of Crows, Blue Ravens, The Heirs of Columbus, Landfill Meditation, Shadow Distance and Hotline Healers. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the American Book Award and PEN Oakland's Josephine Miles Award. In 2021, he was the recipient of the Paul Bartlett Ré Peace prize 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, for his work as a professor, writer and scholar on discussing peaceful resolutions to cultural differences. Vizenor was also awarded the 2022 Mark Twain Award from The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, which recognizes extraordinary work and contributions to Midwestern Literature. He was a delegate and principal writer for the White Earth Reservation Constitutional Convention, ratified in 2009.

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    • 2/5
      Most of these poems are not true haikus, despite the subtitle. Haiku are three line poems of five syllables, seven syllables, and a concluding five syllable line. Vizenor's poems are three lines each, but with 2-3 syllables in the first line, 5-6 syllables in the second line, and 2-3 syllables in the final line. The poems are generally about nature, which is the traditional theme for haiku poetry. The poems are lovely in themselves, however they are not haiku as advertised. I purchased this book because I wanted to read multiple examples of haiku, to inspire my own writing of this poetic form.

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