Bristol, RI: privately printed, 2008.
Pamphlet, 4.25×3.75 in (11×9.5 cm), unpaged. Free for s.a.s.e. to the author at 31 Seal Island Rd., Bristol, RI 02809.
Front cover image as at left (about 2/3rds life-size, depending on your monitor resolution and so on). Pretty neatly enigmatic, especially with the close-quote omitted, suggesting that there is more of the [...]
Archive for the ‘Individual collections’ Category
M., Paul. Pilgrim Stone.
Posted in Individual collections, free, tagged haiku, Paul m, Pilgrim Stone on 27 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Brandi, John. Staff in hand / Wind in pines.
Posted in Individual collections, Letterpress, tagged John Brandi, Staff in hand Wind in pines, Tangram on 4 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
[San Francisco]: Tangram, 2008. Hand-sewn, 5.5×8.5″, no page numbers, no price listed. (Colophon: “One hundred fifty copies printed from Monotype English O. S. on Zerkall.”)
With thanks to the author.
The cover image, I imagine by the poet-painter himself: a line drawing of a guy under a hat with a long staff, striding along, a moon looking [...]
Announcement: Roberta Beary’s The Unworn Necklace Finalist for William Carlos Williams Award from Poetry Society of America!
Posted in Announcements, Individual collections, Our Toasts, tagged haiku, Poetry Society of America, Roberta Beary, Ron Silliman, Snapshot Press, The Unworn Necklace on 22 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you haven’t heard yet, note now that a haiku book, a small haiku book, all things considered, has been named one of two finalists for the extremely prestigious William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
I won’t go into it all deeply here, except to say that I’ve just sent Roberta and [...]
Olson, Marian. Desert Hours.
Posted in Individual collections, Letterpress, tagged Desert Hours, Ed Rayher, haiku, Karen Fitzsimmons, Marian Olson, senryu, Swamp Press on 10 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Northfield, Massachusetts: Lily Pool Press, 2007. Art by Karen Fitzsimmons. Letterpress, sewn binding, 109 pages, 5.5×8.5″. ISBN 978-0-934714-35-8.
With thanks to the author.
Think beautiful. Think demanding, exquisite craftsmanship. Think words lifting from pages into our minds and hearts. Think “book”—in the finest examples you know of, the happiest marriage of text, type, space, and materials possible. [...]
Aoyagi, Fay. In Borrowed Shoes.
Posted in Individual collections, tagged Chrysanthemum Love, Fay Aoyagi, In Borrowed Shoes on 4 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
San Francisco, Blue Willow Press, [2006]. Perfect bound, 4.125×5.375″ (10.5×13.7 cm), 112 pages, $10.
With thanks to the author.
In 2004, I reviewed Fay Aoyagi’s Chrysanthemum Love for Modern Haiku magazine, and said, among other things:
Fay Aoyagi’s Chrysanthemum Love heralds what will hopefully become a new generation of America haiku masters. The poems are crafted, richly felt, [...]
Heyen, William. Lord Dragonfly: Five Sequences.
Posted in Environment, Individual collections, tagged haiku, Lord Dragonfly, sequences, William Heyen on 1 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New York: Vanguard Press, 1981.
Wow, that was a packed month! February saw Penny Harter and me giving readings in Pennsylvania, giving workshops as visiting writers in four different schools, attending a national conference in NYC, and judging regional Poetry Out Loud contests at two different venues–though we missed a third that was snowed out (rescheduled [...]
Madeleine Findlay. Shaped Water: A Haiku Year.
Posted in Individual collections, Letterpress, tagged A Haiku Year, haiku, Madeleine Findlay, Shaped Water on 30 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Portsmouth, NH: Single Island Press, 2007. 4.25×5.5″ (11×14 cm), approx 64 unnumbered pages, $14.95 from the publisher, 379 State St., 03801.
With thanks to Tom D’Evelyn.
With Shaped Water, editor, publisher and author Madeleine Findlay inaugurates her and Tom D’Evelyn’s “small press”* in fine style. From a four-color wrapper to the letterpress-printed interior in sewn signatures of [...]
Morden, Matt. Stumbles in Clover.
Posted in Individual collections, tagged Matt Morden, Snapshot Press, Stumbles in Clover on 3 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
Liverpool: Snapshot Press, 2007. Paperback, 80 pages. UK £7.99, US$14, CDN$17.00.
From the press, POBox 132, Waterloo, Liverpool L22 8WZ UK.
With thanks to the author.
Stumbles in Clover is another in the series of very nicely produced haiku collections from Snapshot Press, run by John Barlow. Like others in the series, it features quality design, [...]
Chaikin, Miriam. the quick darting things
Posted in Individual collections, tagged Chaikin, haiku, Miriam, quatrains, tanka on 5 December 2007 | 2 Comments »
New York: a hoopoebird book, 2007 (Kishlev 5768).
With thanks to the author.
Penny and I get to meet some pretty interesting and often endearing people in this haiku business. One of our recent acquaintances, through the New York group of the Haiku Society of America, is Miriam Chaikin. Miriam comes to some of the New York [...]
Goldstein, Joel H. Haiku Africa: Haikus and Photographs
Posted in Individual collections, tagged Africa, haiku, photographs on 29 November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No place listed: [iUniverse] 2006.
With thanks to the author.
Note: I list “iUniverse” in brackets because my understanding is that, technically, they are not publishers, but book manufacturers who assist authors in self-publishing their work.
Available from iUniverse (online) or the author:
Joel H. Goldstein, M.D.
4999 E. Kentucky Ave., Suite 201
Denver, CO 80246
Dr. Goldstein has a good [...]
