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RUSTLE OF BAMBOO LEAVES: Selected haiku and other poems, featuring haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, haiga, cinquain, sijo, and free verse.
240p. Copyright © November 2005 $19.00 + postage
ISBN 1-4116-6215-6
by Victor P. Gendrano
AVAILABLE AT: AMAZON, BORDERS, BARNES AND NOBLE
and the publisher Lulu.com located here: http://www.lulu.com/content/185280
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. HAIKU
Introduction by Ferris Gilli
Personal haiku selection by James W. Hackett
Jukebox haiku - Comments and discussion between Susumu Takiguchi and the author
Frog haiku - Comments by Susumu Takiguchi
Other haiku comments by Susumu Takiguchi
Haiku comments by Ferris Gilli
Spring haiku • Summer haiku • Autumn haiku • Winter haiku
CHAPTER II. TAGALOG AND ENGLISH HAIKU
Introduction - Victor P. Gendrano
CHAPTER III. SENRYU AND VANGUARD HAIKU
Introduction - Susumu Takiguchi
CHAPTER IV. HAIKU SEQUENCE
CHAPTER V. HAIGA
CHAPTER VI. HAIBUN
Introduction - Debi Bender
CHAPTER VII. VARIATION IN FORM
CHAPTER VIII. TANKA
Introduction - Michael McClintock
CHAPTER VII. AMERICAN CINQUAIN
Introduction - Denis M. Garrison
CHAPTER VIII. KOREAN SIJO
Introduction - Larry Gross, Ph.D.
CHAPTER IX. FREE VERSE
Introduction - Luis Cabalquinto
ABOUT THE AUTHOR & CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
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WHAT READERS SAY:
“Rich with appealing simplicity, Victor's poems range from deeply serious to quietly humorous. His haiku demonstrate his honest appreciation and concern for all of nature, including humanity. Without bitterness or self-pity, he lays bare his own frailties.”
- Ferris Gilli, poet and editor, The Heron's Nest
“The maturing of Gendrano as a haiku and senryu writer is due to his own innate talent, keen perception and modesty with which to learn.” - Susumu Takiguchi, Chairman and Founder, World Haiku Club, artist, poet, essayist, and Basho scholar.
“The craft found in Victor Gendrano's tanka reflects a good understanding of both tanka tradition and the potential for tanka as a short, powerful form of poetry. He has striven to write a poetry without boundaries and the result has been a small, important victory for the human heart.”- Michael McClintock, President, Tanka Society of America and editor, Tanka Anthology, Redmoon Press, © 2003
“Your themes bring to mind classical Japanese tanka from 1000 years ago. I appreciate their pathos.”- Dr. Hisashi Nakamura, Founder and co-chair of the Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society
“The cinquains and butterflies of Gendrano reveal the poet as an affectionate and devoted family man, first and foremost, and as a keen observer of society. These verities are universal. His verse is notable for its straightforward diction and accessibility. There is no pretense in his poems.” - Denis Garrison, author, poet, and editor, Modern English Tanka
“The reader of his haibun gets a glimpse into his world, his home, heart and spirit. As a poet and expatriate, his sensitivity, personal dedication to, and understanding of Asian poetic forms and aesthetics may have been deepened by his Filipino roots, an Asiatic culture with a rich poetic history and voice.” - Debi Bender, poet & Consulting Editor, World Haiku Review
“To read Vic Gendrano's poetry [free verse] is to hear an authentic lyric voice celebrating life in its various manifestations. The lyric voice is simple, sincere, moving. and his touching honesty and humanity thoroughly inhabit his poetry.” - Luis Cabalquinto, author. poet and writer in three different languages
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