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Each photo is combined with a tanka (a five-line, 31-syllable poem) written through the lens of a 10-year-old girl encountering the Jews for the first time, composed by poet Hiroko Yamagata.
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Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
His haiku and tanka translations influenced Pound, Rexroth, and others.
—Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
His haiku and tanka translations influenced Pound, Rexroth, and others.
—Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanka
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Later, Navalny discovered that there was no Japanese neurosurgeon, no dead toddler and no haiku.Robin Abcarian, Twin Cities, 31 Oct. 2024
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Here’s the etymology, this time as a haiku: From Old English roots, Healf, meaning half or part, Divide, share in two.Erik Kain, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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The construction is the same -- three lines, 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables on the third line -- but the tone and subject matter of a senryu is different.Mary Colurso | mcolurso@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2020
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The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
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People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app.Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
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According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Tanka.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanka. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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