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Amy Lowell - Lacquer Prints
Turning from the page,
Blind with a night of labour,
I hear morning crows.
The Imagist poet Amy Lowell first learned of haiku from her brother’s Japanese secretary. Her fusion of free-verse techniques with the traditional approach has earned her the ire of purists, but her 1921 haiku cycle, Twenty-four Hokku on a Modern Theme, retains its starling intimacy a century on.
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