Hip Haiku
May, 1964
The most popular of all poetry forms in Japan today is -- as it has been for the past several centuries -- haiku. The form is so popular, in fact, that haiku cults have sprung up in this country and in many other parts of the world. Haiku, as anyone remotely familiar with them knows, are three lines in length and contain exactly seventeen syllables -- the first and third lines having five syllables each, and the second, seven. They invariably deal with such subject matter as nature, animal and i...
