#quasimodo — Public Fediverse posts
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Since the first translations of haiku were made in the West, some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century have grown fond of this poetic genre, from Rainer Maria #Rilke to Paul #Eluard. In Italy, some poets who have embraced the current of hermeticism, such as #Ungaretti and #Quasimodo, approached haiku. Famous is that of Ezra Pound with his urban #imagism:
"The appearance of these faces in the crowd,/Petals on a wet, black bough."