ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the affective capacities of haiku in connection with modernist avant-garde movements beyond Ezra Pound’s Imagism. Hokenson argues that haiku “served both as source and method for many of the poetic ruptures with tradition that are still often conceived as local events in the West.” The chapter references literary movements in France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Latin America, and South America, to position haiku as a dissident modernist form that has thrived in conditions of artistic and political rupture.
