Book of the Week: The Full Canoe

Rosa Clement is one of the leading voices in Brazilian haiku, but her work has been known around the world since her first appearances online more than two decades ago. This early volume (Helionaut Press, 2001) offers poems in both Portuguese and English.

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.

ecotourism
   the little monkey chooses
      banana cake

on the sea rock
   a huddled cormorant
      less than five degrees

windy day
   the caterpillar’s hair
      so neat

sunny day
   a wasp tastes
      everyone’s beer

cut tree
   a half lane of ants
      comes down

always a child
   it’s her teddy bear
      that gets older