Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon by Richard Wright by Wright, Richard

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Here are over 800 haiku by Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son and Black Boy. Wright discovered the haiku in the last eighteen months of life. He attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African-American, the elusive Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man’s relationship, not only to his fellow man as he had in the raw and forceful prose of his fiction, but to the natural world. In all, he wrote ov