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humanimalia-21496	Driscoll, Kári	Slowly, slowly	2024	7	.pdf	application/pdf	2067	64	39	According to the definition proposed in 1973 by the Haiku Society of America, haiku is “an unrhymed Japanese poem recording the es- sence of a moment keenly perceived, in which Nature is linked to human nature.” If Issa’s poem seems to invite us to empathize with the snail, or to hear the imperative to climb — but slowly, slowly — as directed at ourselves, this has less to do with the dreaded reductio ad figuram that inscribes animals within a purely anthropomorphic schema of signification, and more to do with a fundamental sense that “human nature” is itself “an interspecies relation”,4 and that this is in fact the reason why the experience of nature can be “intuitively linked” to the human condition in the first place, as the HSA’s updated definition has it.	cache/humanimalia-21496.pdf	txt/humanimalia-21496.txt