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PASCAL BOUAZIZ – PASSAGES – [BOOK / HAÏKUS]

Le mot et le reste
ISBN : 9782360542
176 pages (148*210)

“Cela fait trois heures que l’on parle ainsi
Dans la cuisine
Personne n’allume la lumière
On ne doit plus pouvoir se voir
On ne peut plus se voir
(Je suis très mal assis)”

To ease the stress of his daily metro ride, Pascal Bouaziz spent a year studying and writing haïkus. Soseki Natsume, Kenshin Semitaku, Issa, Shiki. How can one approach a haïku today, in French ? The ancient arts of haïku, tanka, renka, senryu… have been revisited  & reinvented throughout the 20th century by a whole host of poets and students of literature all wanting to keep the spirit of this ancient traditional form of creative writing. Inspired by this form, Pascal Bouaziz gives his take on the haïku. Dark humour, disparate memories, in over 100 poems the story of a year unfolds.