Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Butterfly Dream: Voices Haiku by Steve Addiss

English Original

your voice
my voice
the hum of the fridge

Steve Addiss


Chinese Translation (Traditional)

你的聲音
我的聲音
以及冰箱的嗡嗡聲

Chinese Translation (Simplified)

你的声音
我的声音
以及冰箱的嗡嗡声


Bio Sketch

The haiku and haiga of Stephen Addiss have appeared widely.  His books include Cloud Calligraphy, A Haiku Menagerie, The Art of Zen, Haiga: Haiku-Painting, The Art of Chinese Calligraphy, Haiku People, A Haiku Garden, Haiku Humor, Tao Te Ching, Japanese Calligraphy, Haiku: An Anthology, and The Art of Haiku.

1 comment:

  1. In Ls 1&2, Steve's emotionally effective use of parallelism foregrounds the relationship aspect of the idea of heteroglossia. And the image of a humming fridge not only gives added significance to the idea, but also puts an emphasis on the "hai" aspect of the poem.

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