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Title: In Bed With Kerouac
Post by: AlanSummers on August 20, 2012, 02:54:40 PM
In Bed With Kerouac

Authored by Brendan Slater
Introduction by Michael McClintock

Modern haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga for the 21st century.


Publication Date: Aug 20 2012

ISBN/EAN13:  1478344660 / 9781478344667
Page Count: 82
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5" x 8"
Language: English
Related Categories:  Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/


From the most romantic of poems to tanka where you need a Sharps box; to haiku that touch you deeply in the most intimate moments of immediacy.  In Bed With Kerouac is modern haiku, tanka, haibun and tanka prose, and other verse for the realities and edgy romances of this fledgling don't know where to go yet 21st Century.

Alan Summers, With Words

Title: Re: In Bed With Kerouac
Post by: Chase Gagnon on August 20, 2012, 07:16:30 PM
Maybe Ill buy a copy for me and my girlfridnd to read together ;) could be fun. Haha.
Title: Re: In Bed With Kerouac
Post by: AlanSummers on August 21, 2012, 03:19:52 AM
Extracts from the book:


blinded
by a glint of sunlight
from my jimmy—
the cash box opens
another day of IOUs




the lie
i almost tell
bruised ginger



Something in her eyes called Nothing

I grab my coat, take her by the arm and lead her to a metal staircase tucked around a corner in the backs. We wait in the dark . . .

face of an angel
under my dealer's hoody—
stars are made from rock
Title: Re: In Bed With Kerouac
Post by: Chase Gagnon on August 21, 2012, 03:16:13 PM
I really like the haibun... I'm thinking of buying a copy.