It may be that such people are born writers. He tells the story of his parentsí dismay when they found him obsessively staring into the cutlery drawer in their Hungarian kitchen: it took the local doctor to realize he was reading the newspaper under the fish forks. George Szirtes, for example, began to read before he was two years old. There are hints of their talent at an early age. However, I would also like to put my own values in context, to show how I have come to my personal evaluations, and to this end I will say a little about how I became a poet. I would like to approach this problem by explaining what I value in poetry, and then considering how and whether haiku embody these characteristics. One of the questions addressed by this Conference is whether and to what degree haiku can be regarded as poetry.
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