Thinking in Tristichs: Original Poems Inspired by Thomas Wolfe's Short Stories

In Japan Thomas Wolfes long narrative novels frequently inspired his readers to write a great number of haiku poems. However Martin Wasserman this books author discovered that it was not in Wolfes novels but in his short stories where one could find endless inspiration. Moreover in Professor Wassermans case it was not the writing of haiku that eventually resulted from the perusing of Wolfes shorter works but a different type of three-line poem known as the tristich. Fortunately as the late Greek poet Yannis Ritsos pointed out tristichs just like haikus are capable of delivering sweet and poignant little pictures that often stay with the reader over a lifetime.