American haiku examples
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Jack Kerouac (12 March 1922 – 21 October 1969)
Then I’ll invent
The American Haiku type:
The simple rhyming triolet:--
Seventeen syllables?
No, as I say, American Pops:--
Simple 3-line poems
From “Reading Notes 1965”
Jack Kerouac, renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel "On the Road", was also a master of haiku.
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Following in the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form's essence. He incorporated his 'American' haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings.
Jack Kerouac was born on 12 March 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
He won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York where he met William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. His first novel “The Town and the City” appeared in 1950 but it was “On the Road&rdquo