In the Spaces Between Bonsai
Terry Ann Carter

In the Spaces Between Bonsai is all about the manifold joys and challenges of reading, writing, and sharing haiku. Vivid, empathetic encounters in the author’s wide-ranging travels, together with her extensive knowledge of cultural history, enrich a collection that is both celebratory and searchingly insightful. Even readers who have a limited acquaintance with “the way of haiku” will find these explorations illuminating.

Poets and places pervade these poems, beyond their references to haiku and its Japanese homeland. We roam from Haiku City to Sandefjord, Norway, from Greece to the south of France, from Dallas Road in Victoria, British Columbia to Matsuyama and Iga Ueno. We dance with Emily Brontë and Emily Carr, with shades of Heraclitus, Robert Hass, and Billy Collins. These poems love literature and travel, demonstrating that it is inevitable to long for haiku while writing haiku—and even when you’re not. —Michael Dylan Welch, President of Haiku North America

Aeolus House | 2024 | 6 x 8 inches | 44 pages | 978-1-987872-64-4 | $20.00

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