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June 21: I'm posting this from my cousin Sue's. I arrived here yesterday afternoon. When the subject of my From Haiku To Lyriku came up, I asked her if she'd finished reading it--knowing she had read several chapters of it when I'd brought it to her on my Christmas visit. She said she had. Thereupon, I asked her if she'd found it "baffling," confident that she, unlike Trumbull, would not have, even though she wasn't a specialist in haiku and related varieties of poetry. Alas, she immediately said, "Yes." She was cooking some chicken that smelled very good at the time, so I didn't leave in a huff.
She went on to tell me that she had enjoyed and understood the chapters about haiku and the poems I call "naiku" ("nigh" haiKU), but not the rest of the book. A disappointment. I really tried hard to make the entire book accessible, with the first fifty or sixty pages setting up the rest. I can easily see that many people will fail to appreciate the innovative poems, the lyriku, the I write about as much as I, or at all, but I find it hard to see why they can't at least intellectual appreciate what they're doing. So, I have to study the book, and determine where I'm going wrong.
One irony is that Trumbull accused me of over-explaining. . . .
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