form, resorting instead to haiku’s roots…Renga
and Tanka. An example of his semantically driven
altered haiku form is “Protected by the
clouds…the moon…sleeps sailing”, another is
“When the moon sinks down…to the power
line…I’ll go in”. The moon is a perpetual source of
inspiration for him, that natural symbol of
madness and transformation. As in Frank
Stanford’s labyrinth epic “the battlefield where
the moon says I love you”, the moon is that which
offsets the shamanic flight. However, in Kerouac's
case, this is done through purposeful caesura of
sound and sense.
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The Shaman as poet uses his poetic
imagination to open a way to a mystical world
upon which he yields control, through act of will
over the parameters of spatiotemporality. This is
the "double soul" nature of the shaman. Angela
Sumegi states in her book “Dreamworlds of
Shamanism” that Shamanism itself is defined as
consisting of two elements”…”a belief in parallel
spiritual or physical worlds…and a “dualistic
soul” (Herrman, 2010). Another realm or dualistic
spiritual/physical realm can be confronted or
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