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Haiku and Senryu: A Book of Short Shorts
by Jacob erin-cilberto
36 Poems ~ 34 pages
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Praying Mantis Press
ISBN #: 97988770929569
To Order: Amazon
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Whether you are well-versed in the oriental forms or simply desiring to learn more about them Haiku and Senryu You by Jacob erin-cilberto is a book worthy of your shelf. Haiku poets take nature and often a specific season as their key element or primary focus. Senryu (pronounced Send-ru) poets use elements of “human nature” to dramatize some of the anomalies of life. Erin-cilberto’s book will satisfy either way.
ADVANCE PRAISE:
Though I am in my seventh decade and often complacent about what I know, (thinking, I’ve arrived as a poet), Jacob erin-cilberto disabused me of my smugness. Haiku and Senryu You claimed my interest immediately. As I worked my way through this thin volume, I came to realize how important the oriental forms are to poetry and to a sharpened understanding of who I am as a person.
–Michael Escoubas, author of Ripples Into the Light: PhotoPoetry, by Michael Escoubas and Vandana Bajikar
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jacob erin-cilberto hails from the Bronx, NY. He now resides in Southern Illinois where he lives with his cat, Hank, and three box turtles. Erin-cilberto has been writing and publishing since 1970, Haiku and Senryu You is his 23rd book of poetry.
FROM THE BOOK:
Haiku
by Jacob erin-cilberto
love is a clipped wing
crawling across a rainbow
the colors limping
when mortality
wore too many syllables
they buried the vowels
Senryu
by Jacob erin-cilberto
inkling
there was a time when I thought
of you,
years ago,
weeks ago,
days ago
hours ago
tomorrow
delete love
in-box full,
out-box tired
flooded messages
usurp intrusively
my finger calloused
heart as well
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