Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions

By Ce Rosenow

Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African American haiku. Ce Rosenow analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with a variety of other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. An examination of Moore's haibun, a Japanese form combining prose and haiku, reveals the further development of the African American aesthetic created in his individual poems. Ultimately, the author argues that Moore's decades-long engagement with haiku and his prolific publication history solidify haiku as an established form in African American poetry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793653178
• ISBN13: 9781793653178
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"