Book of the Week: Where Light Begins
Gabriel Rosenstock is one of haiku’s great ambassadors, in Irish as well as English, with dozens of publications to his name. This 2012 book (Original Writing) is representative of his recent work.
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.
church bells— where are they all going? swarms of antswith his one good hand a scarecrow points to the moondying notes of a bagpipe — singly and in groups swallows disappearbáisteach gan stad róbhuí ar fad é an buachalán relentless rain too yellow by far the ragwortsuddenly the universe expands wild geese honkingag teacht is ag imeacht i gcéin — meabhalscáil coming and going in the distance — a mirage
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A superb book- I loved his essay on Issa as much as I loved his haiku, and Issa’s of course
thank you
Gabriel is a top haiku poet!
I proud to be one of his friends.
Geert Verbeke, Belgium
He is one of the great poets of our time. Almost everyday he sends me a haiku and I’m able to face my day with a smile. I met Gabriel in1965 in Rockwell College.