Duochrome illustrations on each page back up 106 pages of haiku from a prize winning haiku writer.
Sensitive, creative haiku following the seasons of the year, which capture a moment in time with grace. These surprising pictures of life detail observances the author has noticed as she walks thorugh life on Cape Cod.
Seasons Rising features an introduction of the background of haiku and how to produce a prize-winning haiku, including the "do's" and don'ts" of writing a good haiku.
An excellent book of 5-7-5 haiku with some Tanka and senryu as well.
Excerpt
In the lighthouse beam
seagull voices echo white
the darkening sea.
Sudden shower
plum summer sky is reclaimed
buy a skein of geese
cool brook
someone spilled a full sunset
a blaze of color.
Mary Angela Nangini's poems celebrate the richness of life and love. From the city to cottage-country and the roads in between, Nangini explores the changing seasons of her varied region. (This book will soon be reprinted in hard cover.)
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
