Award-winning book artist and poet Rick Black has penned a new book of haiku, Two Seasons in Israel.
Black, who worked as a reporter for three years in the Jerusalem bureau of The New York Times, blends together his keen eye for detail and a subtle sense of irony. Here you’ll discover haiku in Jerusalem’s alleyways and the Galilee’s orchards, at war memorials and religious shrines.
Arab and Jew
walk past each other:
blind alleyway
“All of the poems in this extraordinary collection, Two Seasons in Israel, move me deeply—sometimes to quiet contemplation, sometimes to tears,” said Penny Harter, author of The Haiku Handbook with her husband, William J. Higginson. “It’s a powerful and evocative collection.”
Here are a few poems from the collection:
sign posted
at the Latrun monastery:
“Don’t hurt the flowers”
polished shoes
during the memorial service:
perfectly still
purple bougainvillea
beyond the barbed wire
flowering wildly
The book, which lists for $16.95, has 200 poems and 18 black and white photos. It can be ordered from Turtle Light Press or from www.amazon.com.
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ISBN#978-0-9748147-7-3
Perfect binding. 167pp, 5.25 x 8 in.
200 poems
18 b&w photos
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