Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: Ten Years’ Collected Haiku

higginson_tenyearscollectedhaikuWilliam J. Higginson’s enormous contributions to the study of haiku and its relatives sometimes eclipse his gifts as a poet. By 1987, when this chapbook was published (From Here Press), he had already 10 years of published work to draw upon, as well as an interesting story to tell on how he came to the genre, to be found here.

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, and are used with permission.


First thing heard:
   The snow-plow truck.
      A year of white.


Holding the water,
   held by it —
      the dark mud.


nighthawk skreek
then
wings


This Alamo:
   too small a place
      for dying.


Pause after
   a day of job hunting:
      cutting toe nails.


year’s end
eating a student’s gift
of bluefish

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