| Item Description: | "Evidently, Dante invented terza rima to write The Divine Comedy. It may be the first example in the West of a poetic form based on tercets, whereas the haiku appeared slightly earlier--in thirteenth-century Japan, though it was popularized by Basho much later, ...Eileen R, Tabios' method of assembling a collection is to foreground both her invention of the form, which has intervened in contemporary poetic practice for the last sixteen years by providing a new formal alternative (a tercet with one word in the first line, two in the second, three in the third), and her non-hay(na)ku poems that utilize tercets without counting words or scramble the order of the hay(na)ku count ...."--Back cover, from the introduction of Thomas Fink. |
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