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Book of the Week: nothing personal

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LeRoy Gorman has published scores of haiku, most often in small chapbooks like this one (proof press, 2001). His piquant observations and verbal dexterity mark him as one of the best practitioners of the genre of our 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.





getting louder
the calf
the auctioneer


TV sex
the ads
multiply



moonlit zucchini rot on the vine
Richard Brautigan
is dead


acid rain
the dog brings in
its fleas


above the traffic
a clock
with no hands


the locked ward
      Oprah
the only window

This Post Has 3 Comments

  1. It’s ironic that Leroy Gorman references Brautigan in one of the haiku. Remember Brautigan’s Haiku Ambulance and other haikuesque poems?
    Gorman’s “getting louder”‘ is a precise portrait of life being life; “above the traffic ” could be a Zen koan.
    Thank you , Mr. Gorman.

  2. Gorman-san is so open to existence…how everything connects, …I see a unity of things in his work. Reading his haiku is like being inside a Hesse novel. My favorite:

    solar storms
    the dog chases
    its tail

    -Patrick

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