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An Exploration of Consciousness

An Exploration of Consciousness

Tekkan

Paperback

Series: Exploration of Consciousness

Metaphysical GeneralAddiction & RecoveryGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0999772848
ISBN13: 9780999772843
Publisher: Barry MacDonald
Published: Dec 31 2017
Pages: 522
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

I am Tekkan. I have married the poetic forms of the sonnet and the tanka. A story is told in the sonnet -- using three quatrains, and a final couplet. The story reaches a conclusion in the couplet. The tanka offers a commentary or counterpoint to the sonnet -- the combined poems have two endings. The meaning is direct -- I want people to understand clearly. Metaphors are inspired by Shakespeare, the (aimed-for) precision imitates the Japanese. Mixing the sonnet with the tanka combines the sensibility of the Occident and the Orient -- as I have done by living in America, England, and Japan.

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