Book of the Week: you aim to love
nick avis is one of our most gifted visual poets, and has a special penchant for love poems (not so common in literary haiku as one might suppose). This elegant small book from 1988 (burnt lake press) combines these interests in a striking fashion.
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.
summer solstice the thin white line around her suntanned hipscool night feeling the heat from her sunburnt legsthe telephone rings only once autumn raincan d le light ting sh adow sin her f acein her sleep she whispers a name night deepensraising the hem of her new dress the day now longer
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Some of my favorites in this nick avis collection:
” the telephone”, ” reading her letter”, and ” she combs my hair”.
she combs my hair
with her hands
mist among the trees
~ nick avis
Love Nick’s haiku and wonderful to see this book of visual poems.