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Chris Bohjalian
If you answered, A three-line poem written with five, seven and five syllables per line, you d be correct, but only as defined by the broad and somewhat arbitrary interpretation of Japanese literature that most of us were taught in elementary school. In fact, there s much more pleasure to be had in writing haiku than simply counting and dividing up syllables.
As a longtime lover and occasional practitioner of haiku and something of a haiku truther this writer feels obliged to provide a more expansive definition than the reductive 5-7-5 format. First of all, Japanese and English are so different linguistically that the units of sound counted in Japanese, called