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Selections from Tanka Diary

Selections from Tanka Diary harryette mullen Harryette Mullen writes: My tanka diary started with a desire to incorpo- rate into my life a daily practice of walking and writing poetry. Normally I go for short walks in various parts of Los Angeles, Venice, and Santa Monica, or longer hikes in the canyons with friends. I also regularly lead student poets on “tanka walks” in the Mildred Mathias Botanical Gar- den on the campus of UCLA. At other times, I stroll through unfamiliar neighborhoods as I travel. These poems are my adaptation of a traditional Japanese form of syllabic poetry. Usually a tanka is thirty-one syllables, often written in fi ve lines. Shy extrovert entices and repels with petals and thorns. Modest exhibitionist hides her blush under a pink ruffl e. ✶ ✶ ✶ In my hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, an arrangement of fl owering weeds plucked from the Olentangy River trail. ✶ ✶ ✶ The list of recently discovered zoological specimens includes a fl at- faced frogfi sh and a carnivorous sponge. ✶ ✶ ✶ qui parle spring/summer 2011 vol.19, no.2 I managed to do it only that one time when my grandfather taught me how to bait a fi sh hook http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

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University of Nebraska Press
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1938-8020

Abstract

harryette mullen Harryette Mullen writes: My tanka diary started with a desire to incorpo- rate into my life a daily practice of walking and writing poetry. Normally I go for short walks in various parts of Los Angeles, Venice, and Santa Monica, or longer hikes in the canyons with friends. I also regularly lead student poets on “tanka walks” in the Mildred Mathias Botanical Gar- den on the campus of UCLA. At other times, I stroll through unfamiliar neighborhoods as I travel. These poems are my adaptation of a traditional Japanese form of syllabic poetry. Usually a tanka is thirty-one syllables, often written in fi ve lines. Shy extrovert entices and repels with petals and thorns. Modest exhibitionist hides her blush under a pink ruffl e. ✶ ✶ ✶ In my hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, an arrangement of fl owering weeds plucked from the Olentangy River trail. ✶ ✶ ✶ The list of recently discovered zoological specimens includes a fl at- faced frogfi sh and a carnivorous sponge. ✶ ✶ ✶ qui parle spring/summer 2011 vol.19, no.2 I managed to do it only that one time when my grandfather taught me how to bait a fi sh hook

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Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social SciencesUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: May 6, 2011

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