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Article: Jazz from the Haiku King.

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December 22, 2001
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James A. Emanuel. Jazz from the Haiku King. Detroit: Broadside P, 1999. 138 pp. $8.50.

While haiku is a traditional Japanese poetic form, jazz has its origin in African American music. Despite technical differences in composition, haiku and jazz have both been known for their powerful expressions of human sentiments by celebrated artists. Jazz from the Haiku King is the latest collection of James Emanuel's work, in which a contemporary African American poet has presented a series of literary experiments he calls "jazz haiku." As jazz, in modern times, has crossed cultural boundaries the world over, Emanuel's intention is to translate the musical expressions of ...

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