 New Jersey based poet Jean LeBlanc published in India with Cyberwit.netThe Haiku Aesthetic : Short Form Poetry as a Study in Craft by Jean LeBlanc, a teacher and writer living in New Jersey, U.S.A, shows her original scholarship. She is one of the greatest haiku poets.
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Jean THE BOOK In October of 2011, I facilitated a writing workshop called The Haiku Aesthetic. We filled a classroom at Sussex County Community College on a gray Saturday morning as the first few flakes of an unusual autumn blizzard began to fall. I look back at that morning as one of the highlights of my poetry life. The room was a warm, laughter-filled island oblivious to the cold and threatening weather. This setting, in fact, seems to me in retrospect a perfect example of the paradox inherent in haiku, one of the elements of the haiku aesthetic I shared that day in the workshop. I hope I convinced the workshop participants that the haiku aesthetic can be an element of all their poems, whether haiku, tanka, or longer poems. One of the points I tried to make was that the question, “Is it a good poem?” should precede even, “Is it a good haiku?” Each of these creations we poets write is, foremost, a poem, and must succeed as such; only then can we say, “And, it’s a haiku” or sonnet or villanelle or unrhymed poem with twenty lines of varying length. The haiku aesthetic is the aesthetic of each poem, whatever its form. THE AUTHOR Jean LeBlanc lives in Newton, New Jersey, where she teaches writing and literature at Sussex County Community College. Her poetry is informed by the natural world, from backyard garden to wild woodland. Her work has appeared in numerous journals. She is the executive editor of the Paulinskill Poetry Project in Andover, New Jersey, and editor of their anthology Voices From Here (2009). Her latest book is The Haiku Aesthetic: Short Form Poetry as a Study in Craft (Cyberwit.net, 2013); her previous books are Just Passing Through: Tanka, Haiku, Haibun (Paulinskill Poetry Project, 2007),The Stream Singing Your Name: Tanka and Sijo (Modern English Tanka Press, 2009), Where We Go: Haiku and Tanka Sequences and Other Concise Imaginings (Modern English Tanka Press, 2010), and At Any Moment (Backwaters Press, 2010). The Haiku Aesthetic : Short Form Poetry as a Study in Craft (Paperback) published by Cyberwit.net is available worldwide via Amazon USA and through publisher's site. The book is also available in India at Amazon.in, Infibeam and Ombooks. http://www.cyberwit.net/ End
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