Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku

The haiku in this book blend a distinctly urban content with the nature-oriented perspective of traditional haiku. "What I admire about Barry George's poetry is the possibility for human utterance within a contemporary scene - not unlike the lyric poem in modern English - explored in Japanese short forms. In three lines he paints a scene as contemporary as Edward Hopper, strikes notes as American as Aaron Copland. George focuses our attention visually and aurally, and thus each haiku is a cinematic moment casting an afterimage long after the poem closes. Even those who are not familiar with the ever-evolving Japanese short form will find Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku universal in compression and resonance." - Jeanie Thompson, author of The Seasons Bear Us and Executive Director, The Alabama Writers' Forum

 

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