Authors

Keep in touch

Our Pitiful Metaphors: haibun

Volume:
Author: Jean LeBlanc
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788182538290
Availability:
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2021
Condition:
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

Author BIO
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

A World Rediscovered
Edited by Jean LeBlanc
ISBN: 9788182533370

$17

The Opposite of Bird

The Opposite of Bird
Jean LeBlanc
ISBN: 9788182536302

$15

what a [hiding] place - haiku, tanka, haibun

what a [hiding] place - haiku, tanka, haibun
Jean LeBlanc
ISBN: 9789388125598

$14

Our Pitiful Metaphors: haibun

Our Pitiful Metaphors: haibun
Jean LeBlanc
ISBN: 9788182538290

$15

 
 
Contributors