Book of the Week: Wind the Clock by Bittersweet

Bill Pauly was one of the first poets to explore the use of concrete poetry effects in English-language haiku, and never better than in this, his remarkable and prescient first chapbook (HIGH/COO PRESS, 1977).

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.

flint
on steel;
starfall

jesus xt i
think you
're younger


thirsty root
in dark oak
unwintering

branch to branch
the bluejay
brightens rain


night foreest
a web breaks
across her face

father,
your eyes that cut
where we scythe wheat