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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