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Book of the Week: Eye To Eye With A Frog

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George Swede has been producing world-class haiku for four decades. Some of his best-known pieces came from this modest chapbook from Juniper Press in 1981. Note his adoption of the one-liner, a relative newcomer at that time.

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.




Dropping stone after stone
into the lake—I keep
reappearing


Growing a body of ants   fish head



Growing a body of ants   fish head


Mental hospital   my shadow stays outside



Trapped in a bad haiku   fluttering butterfly


Amazed at my life   three magpies



After the search for meaning   bills in the mail


At the end of myself   pencil tip

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  4. I love the existential truth of master Swede’s senryu. He is one of my haiku heroes.

    -Patrick

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