tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post1577826838226578768..comments2024-03-27T11:10:57.384-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: One Man's Maple Moon: Final Spring Tanka by an'yaChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-18372650805844215032018-05-06T10:53:50.247-04:002018-05-06T10:53:50.247-04:00an'ya uses a kite to link the internal and ext...an'ya uses a kite to link the internal and external worlds. The caesura comes at the exact middle of the poem; the em dash cleanly divides the poem into 'before' and 'after' in a way that no word could do. Only the blankness of a punctuation mark can sever the two parts of the poem while simultaneously joining them. <br /><br />-- excerpted from "Introduction," Take Five edited by M. Kei<br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com