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Point of Rock
Fred Smock has published a very nice review of Leslie Shane’s haiku collection, Point of Rock (Larkspur Press, 2007), in last Saturday’s Courier-Journal:
These days, a book of haiku is an especially welcome gift to the spirit. We live in an age of excess — of spending, wasting, killing. Haiku poetry practices a strict economy, and it is a model of careful, respectful attention paid to the natural world. Shane works in the classical Asian mode: poems about nature, in a 5/7/5 syllable count, with often a surprise or clever turn in the last line.
“You can write poetry without being able to write haiku, but you can’t write haiku without being able to write poetry,” observes James Baker Hall in his foreword.
Shane is well-practiced in the art.
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1. Georgia Green Stamper replies at 17th October 2007, 8:58 am :
Congratulations, Leslie, on the reception of your book. A review in the C-J - wow -:)
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