Zappai
Zappai (雑俳) is a form of Japanese poetry rooted in haikai. It is related to, but separate from, haiku and senryū. Lee Gurga defines zappai as a form of poetry that "includes all types of seventeen syllable poems that do not have the proper formal or technical characteristics of haiku."[1] The Haiku Society of America mentioned zappai while defining similar forms[2] though their comments were later rebutted by Richard Gilbert and Shinjuku Rollingstone.[3]
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[edit]- ↑ Gurga, Lee. “Toward an Aesthetic for English Language Haiku” in Modern Haiku Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (Fall, 2000)
- ↑ HSA Definitions[link removed]
- ↑ Simply Haiku, vol. 3, iss. 1
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