Book of the Week: Back Roads With A White Cane
Elizabeth Hazen’s haiku is strongly conditioned by the fact that in the 1990s she totally lost her sight, regaining only some portion of it a few years later. As a consequence, she is more deeply aware than most of the fusion of the senses, and of how visual a species we are. This chapbook won the Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest (Saki Press, 2002).
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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.
steady drip a bucket’s tone rising with the sapflitting shade: the silence of a large bird passes overa different song— mosquito feet landing palm to palma daytime owl answers to itself falling acornspress of cattle creaking in the pasture gate a scent of ciderhard frost no sound of wind between the pines
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Elizabeth Hazen is still publishing and we’ve been in communication for the slip realism feature I did, inspired by her and her collection: https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2014/01/01/per-diem-for-january-2014-slip-realism/
We are going to Germany this summer and this book will be traveling with us. It’s beautifully illustrated and chock full of interesting information. Back Roads of Germany tells me all I want to know about self drive holidays in Germany.
Peter, Elizabeth was recently in Frogpond 38.1.
Really enjoyed these poems. Is this author still writing and publishing?
Peter, She was recently in Frogpond, 38.1. Greg