Our Pitiful Metaphors: haibun

Author: Jean LeBlanc
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788182538290
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2021
Price: $15

The ancient form of haibun—a prose poem followed by a haiku—is put to versatile use here as description, narrative, dreamscape, memory, conversation, ekphrastic, mini-biography, journal, and journey.

and you confuse the memory of one marsh with another and lose an argument about blue spruce or tamarack (it was spruce) and you miss the leaving of the red-winged blackbirds you miss so much these days (it was tamarack)

lake rimmed with gold
the sun finds (burns?)
a break in the clouds

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Jean LeBlanc
	Jean LeBlanc is a teacher and writer living in New Jersey, U.S.A. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals. She does editorial work for the Paulinskill Poetry Project of Andover, New Jersey, as well as for Cyberwit.net. More of her work can be seen at www.jeanleblancpoetry.com.

Other Publication By Jean LeBlanc
A World Rediscovered Edited by Jean LeBlanc ISBN: 9788182533370 $17 The Haiku Aesthetic : Short Form Poetry as a Study in Craft Jean LeBlanc ISBN: 9788192801032 $15 The Opposite of Bird Jean LeBlanc ISBN: 9788182536302 $15 what a [hiding] place - haiku, tanka, haibun Jean LeBlanc ISBN: 9789388125598 $14 Our Pitiful Metaphors: haibun Jean LeBlanc ISBN: 9788182538290 $15

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