Ashbery, John. A Wave: Poems. New York: Viking Press, 1984.
I have been reading lots of haiku lately, and I also love the New York School of poets, so when I heard about this collection in which Ashbery includes haiku and haibun (a related form that combines prose with haiku), I decided to order it.
Carl-Klassen, Abigail. Ain’t Country Like You. Maywood, NJ: Digging Press, 2020.
Carl-Klassen is an important member of the younger generation of Mennonite poets and also a friend. I am super-excited to have received a copy of her new collection in the mail today! The book’s cover is beautiful.
Crispin, Jessa. The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life. New York: Touchstone, 2016.
As I’ve been reading about the tarot over the past year I’ve become more and more interested in its connections to storytelling and literature. I recently came across a review of Crispin’s book, which discusses using tarot to help inspire one’s creative process and thus relates to these connections. Therefore, I decided to check it out for myself.
Kasdorf, Julia Spicher, Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri Robinson, eds. Field Language: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer. University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2020.
This is the exhibition book for a retrospective exhibition of Warren Rohrer’s paintings and Jane Rohrer’s poetry that was supposed to happen this past spring, but has been rescheduled for 2021. Happily, though, the book itself is now available. It’s a beautiful volume with lots of painting reproductions as well as a selection of Rohrer’s poems. The list of essayists also looks enticing.
Ross, Bruce, Kōko Katō, Dietmar Tauchner, and Patricia Prime, eds. A Vast Sky: An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku. Bangor, ME: Tancho Press, 2015.
I recently came across a citation of this anthology in another haiku anthology. Its global scope sounds fascinating, so I decided to buy it.
Daniel Shank Cruz 