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Product Description An anthology featuring haiku by 54 poets who live or have lived in the Midwest, including statements of poetics related to their creative processes. Review Few anthologies can be spoken of in superlatives. Often the quality of the work contained in an anthology is uneven... yet only superlatives can do this collection justice. The editors chose poetry of high literary merit. Each haiku is well-crafted... marked by astonishing clarity, depth of image, and resonance. There is not one bad poem in the book. What deepens the appreciation of what it exactly means to be Midwestern, and what turns this concept into, often, pure feeling, are the prose pieces that accompany the haiku. -- Wally Swist in a review from Modern Haiku From the Publisher Midwest Haiku Anthology is the first major collection of Midwestern American haiku to be published in a clothbound edition. It features the work of 54 poets including comments on how the Midwestern life has shaped their perceptions, values, and approaches to haiku. The poets in this anthology create their haiku using the language, the images, and the cultural values of the Midwestern experience. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. country field-- home run rolling past the headstones