Book of the Week: Eight Shades of Blue
Denis M. Garrison has made Modern English Tanka Press one of the best-known brands in haiku publishing, but he also has made innovative contributions to the genre in terms of form and content. In this book (2009) he supplies a quantity of haiku noir and crystallines, along with the theoretical underpinnings for them, as well as tanka, sequences, and more traditional poems.
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, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.
bravely in the breeze wave these soft blue flags in shreds irises full-blownon folded paper found in this volume of Blake— a single haikutheir promises are lies— there’s no one in the mirror again todayhomeless no more— the soles of his shoes white with frostOn her letter is one last teardrop that marks the end and blurs her name.Late winter sky, lonely miles from you. The spruce hills turn a darker blue.
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I love the title of this book! That alone would be intriguing. The poety you included in this blog is so beautiful and tender. I look forward to reading more.
Thank you for this post and book by Denis M. Garrison. I will look forward to reading more and the cover is also beautiful.