Book of the Week: Beyond the Paper Lanterns
Cyril Childs combines vignette, haibun, haiku and longer poems in this moving memoir about his wife Vivienne’s ultimately unsuccessful bout with cancer (Paper Lantern Press, 2000), which remains fresh today as it was 15 years ago.
You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.
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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.
her hands — folding and refolding a table napkinher breast where the lump came out — crescent moonstormy August — the first camellia faces the wallgood to see you he says turning his head awayamidst mountains — she pauses to admire violetsfinding a beach pebble in my suitcase — cries of the peewits
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A wonderful book that I stumbled upon a while back in the digital library. Very glad to see it get a larger audience.
Wonderful book and great to see it here. I loaned my copy and it never came back, so fantastic to read it again. The production and content are excellent and I’m thankful I met Cyril in person. This is a fitting tribute to his writing skills and compassion.
such a moving collection, just reading it brought tears to my eyes. thank you for this.
A beautiful book by a beautiful man. Thank you for featuring it.