Books Briefly Reviewed
Includes Magic Carpet by Frank Hooven, Traffic by Guy Nesom, Sincerely Yours by Robert Epstein, Mapping the Borderlands by Barbara Sabol, White Heat by Sara Tropper, Telling the Bees edited by Jim Kacian, and A New Resonance 14 edited by Jim Kacian and Julie Schwerin.
Downhill Home
Downhill Home by Chuck Brickley (Snapshot Press, 2025). 114 pages, 5x 7.75. Perfect softbound. ISBN 978-1-903543-61-0. $20.00 from snapshotpress.co.uk.
Applause for a Cloud
Applause for a Cloud by Sayumi Kamakura, trans. James Shea (Black Ocean, 2025). 304 pages, 5.5 x 7.4. Perfect softbound. ISBN 978-1-939568-99-1. $25.00 from blackocean.org and other booksellers.
Our Backs to the Wind
Our Backs to the Wind: Selected Haiku of Gary Hotham by Gary Hotham (Brooks Books, 2025). 128 pages, 6 x 9. Clothbound. ISBN 978-1-929820-25-1. $30.00 from brooksbookshaiku.com.
Haiku, Language, Thought
Haiku, Language, Thought: Creative Freedom through the Space of Mind by Richard Gilbert (Modern Haiku Press, 2025.) 336 pages, 5 x 8. Perfect softbound. ISBN 978-0-9741894-4-4. $25.00 from modernhaiku.org.