Jack Kerouac’s haikuesque trips
Keywords:
Literature, translation, Jack Kerouac, haikuAbstract
This paper presents some considerations on the influence exerted by North-American writer Jack Kerouac’s book The Dharma Bums on the origins and consolidation of haiku as a literary genre in the United States. Besides making some brief explanations on haiku poetics, the author presents, translates and comments on some of Kerouac’s most characteristic poems as haiku writer and alleged Zen Buddhism practitioner. KEYWORDS: Literature, translation, Jack Kerouac, haiku.
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