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I
have just published two small collections of my poetry. The first is Shorter Tanka Journeys. The
book contains fourteen short Tanka Sequences.
The tanka were each written as individual poems and can stand
alone. I then gathered them by topic to
form sequences. The topics include love,
social commentary, nature, and old age.
Shorter
Tanka Journeys
ISBN:
9781508620716
117
pages
$8.00
The
second book is Shorter Cinquain Journeys. It is a small collection of twelve Cinquain
Sequences. Like the tanka in Shorter Tanka Journeys, each cinquain
was written as a stand-alone poem and subsequently gathered together on the
basis of their shared topic. The topics
are similar to those found in STJ. This
book is also written to express my gratitude for this form of poetry which is
now 100 years old. The cinquain is the
first syllabic form that has emerged in an English language context and the form
has attracted a lot of poets who have used the form for the full range of
poetic expression.
Shorter
Cinquain Journeys
ISBN:
9781508800071
114
pages
$8.00
These
two books join my previous collection, Shorter
Haiku Journeys. In each case the ‘shorter
journeys’ refers to previous books where I published sequences of these forms
that were much longer than those found in the Shorter series of books. In White Roses the haiku sequences are
about 100. In Tanka River the sequences, again, are about 100 tanka. And in Lanterne
Light there is a 100+ cinquain sequence. Because the sequences in the Shorter Journeys books are briefer I
call them ‘shorter journeys’.
All
of these books are available at Amazon or through your local bookstore.
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