Essentially, that hokku was supposed to have seasonal words, kigo, that would show when the renga was written. For example, in the Japanese winter which takes place during November, December and ...

We are not actually here, and it is not 2024. It’s 2020, and we are in Paris," observed Nilanjana S. Roy, flipping through A Different Distance by Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr. The poetry ...