Book of the Week – says the rose by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
Bio from the author’s website: “Tiffany Elise (formerly Tiffany Shaw-Diaz) is a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and two-time Dwarf Stars Award nominee who also works as a professional visual artist. She was shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem in 2020 and won in 2021. Her poetry has been featured in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, NHK World Haiku Masters, The Mainichi, and more than 100 other publications.”
says the rose was first published in 2019 by Yavanika Press.
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Below are a few selected poems from the book:
pounding on the echo chamber door my no to your yes
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going going gone the black of pitch
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divisible by infinity all that could have been
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when your story ends I combust into a rose
You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library. Please share your favorite poem from the book with us.
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Wow, I must try to write like this!
A favorite – my other name the redwood hums a processional
Very powerful writing. Thank you for this book.