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Nationality:
Germany
Iwan Goll - Modern Haikus
From the broken pitcher
Of the crescent moon
The Milky Way pours across the heavens
The German poet Iwan Goll wrote of a Zenithist poetry, with which one could ”ascend with the airship and gaze from the zenith at the shrinking globe.“ He saw the haiku as the perfect form for such poetry. (first English translation)
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