southbound birds the loop of identity
Grand Prize, 2013 Kusamakura Haiku Competition
Dietmar Tauchner
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
候鳥南飛身份認同的循環
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
候鸟南飞身份认同的循环
Bio Sketch
Dietmar
Tauchner, born in 1972 in Austria, lives & works in Puchberg &
Vienna, as a social-worker / counselor, author and lover. His work has
been published in various magazines & anthologies worldwide. He
received some awards, as the Taisho (Grand Prize) at the International
Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto, Japan, in 2013; and received
the Second Place for Noise of Our Origin (Red Moon Press, Winchester, 2013) at the 2014 HSA Mildred Kanterman Merit Book Awards
This winning haiku well-represents a growing movement in English-language haiku : new techniques of language and concept which deepen our experience. Here, nature and its season of autumn reveal through metaphor a union of the inner world of self with the external world of “place.” A haiku which draws our awareness towards origins, in an ouroboros of circulation, and return to life.
ReplyDelete-- excerpted from the judge's comment, which can be accessed at http://kusamakura-haiku.jp/backnumber/2013/english_e.html