HC Episode 3: Senryu, Son of Haiku

26/06/2009 19 min
HC Episode 3: Senryu, Son of Haiku

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli discuss the distinction between the poetic forms of Haiku and Senryu, the origins of Senryu in Japan, and its rediscovery and recognition as a poetic form in English literature.
Credit for choral arrangements of Alan Pizzarelli's Senryu:
"the fat lady" Performed by The Marietta Choir
"buzzZ" Commissioned by soprano Maria Knapik-Sztramko for the Guelph Spring Festival, May 19, 1993 Ontario, Canada
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