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Author’s Blurb
I’m not a salesman, so I have to tell you that this book is
self-published and won’t help you pass any tests in school.
It’s an unscholarly but nonetheless not always simply-
expressed tour of the margins of probably the most marginal
precincts of contemporary North American poetry where
poems like the two at the bottom of the rectangle on the
front cover occur. Very small poems, often difficult, never
like any poems you’ll find published in The New Yorker,
American Poetry Review and the like, or discussed in
university classrooms.
The tour begins with an effort to define haiku. In the process,
it gets into poems I used to term haiku because they were small
lyric poems whose aim, as I saw it, was the same as that of
traditional haiku. I now call such poems, “lyriku,” to avoid
senseless arguments with purists.
After that, the tour meanders through poems just about everyone
(in North America) would agree are haiku, including some by
Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, then on to ones by poets few
readers will be familiar with (including me). These will include
poems out of the language poetry tradition, infraverbal poems,
visual poems and even a few mathematical poems, each aiming,
in my view, for a haiku moment. So the book acts as a reasonably
wide-ranging anthology of what I call currently “kernular” poetry,
but includes a lot of discussion thereof that many, I hope, will find
provocative and maybe sometimes even illuminating.
published 4 September 2007; 255 pages; 5.5-inches by 8.5 inches; glossy cover
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WARNING: there are many typos and other errors in the book, beginning on page 2 where I misattributed two of the four haiku I was discussing: The top one is by Basho, the next by Buson and the last two by Issa. I hope eventually to put a list of errors here, but haven't had time to yet.
Index of Poets with Work in the Book
nick avis 89
Basho 1 (just the first on the page), 2, 25, 27, 33, 51, 63, 72, 132
Mike Basinski 156
Guy Beining 5, 129-130
John M. Bennett 5, 157, 161-162, 164
Alison Bielski 183
Paloin Biloid 186
Jonathan Brannen 82, 154-155
Buson 1 (the second, not the third, on the page, 2, 23, 51
C. L. Champion 156
David Baptiste Chirot 226, 228-229, 231
Ed Conti 92, 136
Clark Coolidge 170-173, 175
Cid Corman 116-117
Robert Creeley 121, 169
E. E. Cummings 132
jwcurry 185
Michael Dudley 90
John Elsberg 121
Endwar 140-141
K. S. Ernst 187
Liz Fenn 120
Ian Hamilton Finlay 178-179
Betsey Franco 254
Hoshinaga Fumio 84
Adam Gamble 184
Laura Goldstein 189
Eugen Gomringer 41, 177
LeRoy Gorman 5, 89, 143, 250
Adolph Gottlieb 247, 249
Bob Grumman 6, 12, 53, 55, 118, 158, 166, 208-209, 251
Lee Gurga 83
Jeff Harrison 168
Scott Helmes 7
Geof Huth 5, 30, 151, 153, 193-198, 201-205
Issa 1 (the third as well as the fourth on the page), 3, 24, 28, 51, 165
James Joyce 131
Karl Kempton 144-147, 192
Jack Kerouac 32, 61, 72-73, 75
M. Kettner 3, 122
Marton Koppany 142
Richard Kostelanetz 207
John Martone 3, 107-115, 211
anne mckay 96-97
Lorine Neidecker 81
Ezra Pound 98
R. Prost 188
Ransetsu 26
Werner Reichhold 90-91
Paul Reps 67-70
Charles Reznikoff 171
Tad Richards 92
Emily Romano134
Alexis Rotella 90
Jerome Rothenberg 172
Aram Saroyan 131, 252
F. J. Seligman 117
John Sheirer 91
Shiki 33
Ron Silliman 138
Gary Snyder 75-77
Robert Spiess 78
Gertrude Stein 167
John Stevenson 86-88, 121
Ficus strangulensis 237-239
Surllama aka Kevin Kelly 136
George Swede 3, 134
Mike Taylor 133
Teitoku 29
Larry Tomayasu 232, 234-235
Cor van den Heuvel 4, 39
Nico Vassilakis 243-245
John Vieira 212, 214-216, 218, 219
Dan Waber 62, 135
R. W. Watkins190-191
Emmett Williams 181
William Carlos Williams 102
Tom Wiloch 123-124, 128
Jeffrey Winke 84, 85
Andrew Young 120
and two elementary school kids named William and Aurelien 254
old pond 35-38 (translations by Bob Grumman, Robert Hass, "El Konde," Harold G. Henderson, Alan Watts, William J. Higginson, James Kirkup, Alfred H. Marks, Sam Hamill and Karl Kempton)
Note: in due course, I hope to provide some excerpts from the book. I will also post any comments in writing I get about it, negative or positive. --Bob Grumman
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