Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: whistling

thomas_whistlingcoverCarolyn Thomas, or, as she favored, “Season,” founded and edited Heron Quarterly of Haiku and Zen Poetry (not to be confused with another Heron Quarterly) in the late 1990s, and has published several several chapbooks through her Thinking Post Press. This one (2000) is perhaps typical, with its emphasis on moments of insight, or, as she puts it, “the pause between breaths.”

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, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.



 whistling
      he
   hangs
     the
birdhouse
      he
    built


tinkling
under the snowy eave
new glass wind chimes


fluttering
against the cloudless sky
two young birds


the quail
after it left
no trace


summer moon—
the sound of eggs
coming to a boil


winter silence . . .
from across the lake
the crow’s     echo

This Post Has 2 Comments

  1. As Garry said, a lovely book. And as Jim quoted from the Preface Carolyn Thomas wrote: “the pause between breaths.”

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    The prose included by poets in some of the haiku books featured here is an education, as well. It would be interesting to collect several reflections in one post some day. I could help.

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    Thank you, Ellen

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