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eggplants & teardrops

a haiku collection
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  • eggplants & teardrops by Aaron Barry
  • eggplants & teardrops by Aaron Barry
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Haiku has changed. eggplants & teardrops: a haiku collection takes haiku into the 2020s, radically updating classic haiku conventions from the days of poetry greats like Matsuo Bashō and touching on contemporary subjects never before seen in the form. With a fresh, comedic style, Barry traces a life of social media, manga, and urban slang, looking at what it means to be broke, search for love in all the wrong places, and exist in a state of constant revision. In their impressive plurality, these poems are an expression of the next generation's most distressing, beautiful, and vulgar experiences, rendered through an ancient poetic tradition. Many of the poems in this collection have been featured across English-language haiku's most respected magazines, and now they've been artfully arranged for the first time and accompanied by thirty bold line art illustrations. * "A wonderfully hilarious collection. Barry has mastered the modern comedic form." -- Jay Friedenberg, President, Haiku Society of America "Witty and playful ... abstract and cerebral ... at other moments, personal, raw, and poignant. eggplants & teardrops offers us a fresh take on the daily experiences and anxieties of a new generation." -- Jacqueline Pearce, Award-winning Haiku Poet and Editor

Author Biography:

Aaron Barry is said to look like a poor man's Penn Badgley, and he's perfectly okay with that. His haiku and senryu have appeared in many of English-language haiku's most prestigious magazines and have placed in several international competitions, including the 2019 VCBF Haiku Invitational and The Haiku Foundation's 2021 Touchstone Award for Best Individual Poems. Currently, he barely affords rent in Burnaby, BC, Canada.Find him on IG @aaronmbarry or @zennialhaiku Eunbyul Kwak is a professional illustrator based in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in 2010, and has worked as an illustrator and graphic designer since. Kwak's style focuses on fantasy and surreal illustrations, using her freehand digital art skills, and she likes to work in a wide range of genres, including manga/manhwa art for comics, children's illustrations, poetry books, logos, t-shirts, portraits, and more. She is the illustrator for Anime Prompts Gone Wild (PGW, 2022). John Stevenson was born in Ithaca, New York, and currently lives in the village of Nassau, New York. He is the former president of the Haiku Society of America (2000), former editor of its literary journal, Frogpond (2005-2007), and current managing editor for The Heron's Nest (since 2008). He is the author of several haiku books, including the award-winning My Red: The Selected Haiku of John Stevenson (Brooks Books, 2021).
Release date NZ
August 23rd, 2022
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Contributors
  • Foreword by John Stevenson
  • Illustrated by Eunbyul Kwak
Pages
118
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
140x191x8
ISBN-13
9781738633906
Product ID
35969342

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