User talk:Koast

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Kigo and haiku
The kigo article is something that I want to eventually nominate and get accepted as a Featured article. After a flurry of work on it, I kind of got burned out on it, but I need to get back to working on it. I've decided that I want to cut down on the number of example kigo in the article, but still keeping something close to a Top 10 list of kigo in the article. Towards that purpose, I've already created the List of kigo article (mirroring the organization on the Japanese-language Wikipedia). I also hope to eventually turn that list into a Featured list.

For the haiku article, I have found some interesting info on the Imagists on the internet, and I think that they deserve a short section of their own as an early experiment in English-language haiku, as well as for the influence of haiku and other Japanese poetry on Western poetry. Gary Snyder and the Beats should also get their own small section. Blank Verse 08:02, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I have Donald Keene's "Dawn to the West", which has some good basic coverage of the early post-Shiki era for haiku, tanka, and free-verse Japanese poets, and I should try to incorporate some of that into the haiku and waka articles. Information on any post-WW II Japanese poetry in very sparse on the Wikipedia, with only the Tawara Machi article one of the few that I can think of at the moment.


 * There are still quite a few important Japanese poets who do not yet have articles (there wasn't even a Buson article when I first started editing the Wikipedia). The pre-Basho developments also need to be covered better as well. The renga article should also get more info on where Basho and Buson fit in to that topic. Blank Verse 09:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)