The magazine “lesser cuckoo” specialized in poems in this form and was edited by an author who called for their reform in a series of talks “from the Otter's Den.” A poem in this form depicts baths “when you’re born” and “when you die” before concluding, “how stupid.” A poem in this form imagines its author's “dreams wandering on this withered field” before his death. A poem in this form works describing a “crimson maple leaf” is analyzed in an (*) anthology based on a children's game. The lines “goes out, / comes back— / the love life of” one animal appear in a poem in this form by Issa. The Seashell Game is an anthology of poems in this form by an author who wrote one about “the splash of water” after a frog jumps into a pond. Matsuo Basho wrote many poems in, for 10 points, what form of Japanese poetry with a 5-7-5 pattern? ■END■
ANSWER: haiku [or hokku; prompt on death poem]
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