Book of the Week: Handful of Sand
Stanford M. Forrester has (since 1999) published and edited bottle rockets, a consistently gentle journal of haiku. For this same period and longer he has been one of our most consistent voices, in that same gentle and often lightly humorous vein tinged with melancholy. This early chapbook is an excellent introduction to this work, as well as this sensibility (bottle rockets press, 2001).
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.
the sea in one swallow— the jellyfishsummer evening . . . fanning myself with a paper moonblue popsicles— the children compare tonguesend of autumn— finding myself in a field of thistlewinter deepens— so much lint in my bellybuttontelephone wire— the starlings leave one by one
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Love Stan’s poetry!
Several years ago Stan and I met for the first time and took a long walk through a wood here on Cape Cod. Aside from a superb time in general, Stan is a modest soul while being passionate about the potency and influence of words. He is, as well, a traveler, absorbing and reflecting many points of view, which are expressed in his short-form work, which radiate from one of his passions, the journal “bottle rockets.” Much respect and his friend…old pajamas
a vacation from the world
a seat on the front porch swing
Pat Kopanda
re January Sun:
http://www.amazon.com/January-Sun-selected-haiku-senryu/dp/0979225701
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Modern Haiku magazine review:
http://www.modernhaiku.org/bookreviews/ForresterJanuarySun2007.html
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Check out the new Bottle Rockets website!
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January Sun:
http://www.bottlerocketspress.com/shop/january-sun
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Just great. But I still love JANUARY SUN the best. I’d encourage anyone interested in haiku to read any or all of Stan Forrester.
–Peter
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the amusement park closed –
out of the tall weeds
a dog’s bark
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Just another gem! 🙂
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Alan, With Words
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An excellent collection. Always a thrill to read Stanford’s haiku. This is the only one of his books I don’t have. Stan, re-release it so I can buy a copy!