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Title: |
The Hokku – A New Verse Form |
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Type of Media: |
Periodical. |
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Vanity Fair (US). |
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Date: |
August 1915. |
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Condé Nast. |
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New York. |
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Page 46. |
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Price: |
25 cents. |
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Remarks: |
Published under the pseudonym of Kwaw Li Ya. |
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Comments by Aleister Crowley: |
I was nearly down and out, when I got an introduction to the editor of Vanity Fair, a perfectly charming man, who reminded me not a little of Austin Harrison. He was, however, extremely intelligent and understood his business thoroughly. In a couple of years he had pulled the paper up from nothing to one quarter of a million. He treated me, through some inexplicable misunderstanding, as a human being and asked me to write for him. I began with an account of a baseball game as seen by a professor from the University of Peking. This was followed up by a series of Hokku. This is a Japanese verse form. It contains three lines totalling seventeen syllables. I modified this by introducing regular meter, the first line dactyl-spondee, the second line spondee-dactyl-spondee, and the third dactyl-spondee. A Hokku must contain a very definite finely chiselled idea or rather, chain of ideas. Such is the strict rule, but one is allowed a certain degree of latitude. — The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. New York, NY. Hill and Wang, 1969. Page 766. |
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