Sunday, December 5, 2010

HAY(NA)KU FOR HAITI

JIM MCRARY Mini-Reviews

The Hay(na)ku for Haiti Series, Ed. Eileen Tabios
(Open Palm Press/Meritage Press and chapbookpublisher.com, 2010)

Through
Having Been

by William Allegrezza;

hay(na)ku
for Haiti

by Tom Beckett;

After
Rene Depestre’s
“My Definition of

Poetry”
as translated
by Elwidge Danticat,

with
lines at
the end by

Lafcadio
Hearn
a
hay(na)ku sequence by

John
Bloomberg – Rissman;

When
The earth
Moves in
a

hay(na)ku
sequence by
Lars palm; Particle

And
Wave and
From the Chair


two
hay(na)ku sequences
by Jean Vengua

A collection from Open Palm Press edited by Ms. Tabios from her heart. Small, concise, full of life, something to read and read again. To soak up. These mentioned above and I suspect more too will appear and should be sought after if you want to spend time with words….good times. That it is and was done with Haiti in hand and thought and heart again…needs to be noticed. Those who responded to the call…deserve our time.

An excerpt from William Allegrezza’s “Through Having Been”—
a
rapid shift
clears our forgetting;

the
streets move
under our feet

and
we see
what we have

selectively
forgotten of
commerce, war, occupation.


*****

Jim McCrary blogs at http://wwwresistingpoetry.blogspot.com/. This is him with cat:

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