tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post2660826739604205864..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: A Haiku about Nagasaki Anniversary by Fay AoyagiChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-67256476662837733762013-03-15T00:16:23.665-04:002013-03-15T00:16:23.665-04:00I agree with with Chen-ou. I did not mean the co...I agree with with Chen-ou. I did not mean the constellation is the mushroom cloud in that dreadful summer in 1945...<br /><br />Fayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05312869439121751358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-48076048431065575682013-03-14T20:44:20.376-04:002013-03-14T20:44:20.376-04:00Technically speaking, the thematic shift is psycho...Technically speaking, the thematic shift is psychologically effective. <br /><br />However, I'm a little surprised by Jack's Americanized reading of Fay's haiku, especially of the constellation. <br /><br />There are at least two interpretations of "we/here," depending on one's reading of the context of the locale. These two interpretations offer different views of the constellation.<br /><br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-90922617342303831112013-03-14T20:33:00.654-04:002013-03-14T20:33:00.654-04:00Below is an excerpt from Jack Galmitz's review...Below is an excerpt from Jack Galmitz's review, entitled Jouissance: The Poetic Achievement of Fay Aoyagi, which was published in A Hundred Gourds, 1:3, June 2012, http://www.haikuhut.com/ahg/ahg13/expositions02.html<br /><br />She gives us insight into what the horrors are that direct her to the imaginary world of literature in the following poem:<br /><br />Nagasaki Anniversary<br />the constellation<br />we never see from here<br /><br />The constellation is that mushroom cloud that killed seventy-thousand people immediately and seventy-thousand later due to disease and radiation. It is something not recognized "here" in America (although it is, of course, taught in schools). Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com