Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: Pelures d’Oranges / Orange Peels

duhaimeAndré Duhaime has been producing quality haiku in two languages for more than 4 decades. Pelures d’Orange / Orange Peels (Éditions Asticou, 1987) is an excellent example of his work, a flip book that reads in French in one direction and English in the other. It’s a fascinating practice to compare the two versions, suggestive of the adjustments a good poet can make in humor and acuity to achieve the nuance of a moment held in common between two sensibilities.

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 THF president THF president Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.


                in her drawer
the doll I’ve thrown out
      three times   already

   a gold tooth
leaving the dentist’s office
         leaves falling

             for hours
the puzzle bridge
   projecting into nothingness

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