Book of the Week: haiku senryu and drawings

Claire Cooperstein’s attractive, self-produced (1986) chapbook is representative of the norm of its time: beautiful papers, crisp type, artless sketches, and an amiable attentiveness to “moments,” in this case with a personal formal style and no automatically enforced syllable count.

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.

In autumn moonlight
the old peach tree blossoming
	one last time

Frost on the pane:
a prism in the window
	rainbows on the wall!

At every feeder,
juncos jostle for a perch:
	storm warning

No bath tonight—
in the fresh-scrubbed tub
	a jumping spider

Small craft warning
waves chasing sandpipers
	again and again

Behind the porch door
his favorite fishing rod
	and a spider web