Knit One, Haiku Too

By Maria Fire

Book Overview

'Knit One, Haiku Too' is a journey through stories, reflections, and haiku for the passionate knitter. A lyrical little book, it is a unique blend of two mysterious and beloved crafts that require... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593375719
• ISBN13: 9781593375713
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

words and knitting that call to me

I read this small book in one sitting a couple of years ago and now pick it up several times a week to read as called to read. It is, of course, about knitting. And it is about events and memories in the author's life that help me, as a reader, recall those same things in my life.....and more importantly, there is a deep spiritual presence in this collection of words that speaks to me. Maria Fire is an incredible writer of prose and poetry....but even more so, she writes from her soul....a rare gift for those of us lucky enough to have found this book. Thank you, Maria, for your gifts of writing, of courage, of memories and of love to the world.

Maria's childhood friend Kristen

Maria, I read this book on a 2-hour flight to Chicago with Bob last weekend. Totally fascinated. I recognized a lot of memories, yet some were surprises. I LOVED the memories of SUG, and how before seatbelts were invented, we bounced around in the back of your daddy's station wagon. much love, kc

A Spoonful of Honey

Poet Maria Fire's Knit One, Haiku Too is a book to keep on the bedside table. It goes down like a spoonful of honey. This delightful book of haiku poetry and inspirational reflections centers around knitting and is designed (I'm guessing) to fit into the outside pocket of a knitting bag. I'm not a knitter of yarn, but of yarns. As a writer and teacher of women's writing retreats, I am enthralled with Fire's insights and use of language. As interesting as the book itself is Fire's story of its birth: how author Bryan Robinson approached her about writing it and how his agent helped the book on its way. In the midst of the process, Fire became ill and went through surgery. Here is a 17-syllable taste: Yarn looping in yarn Tactile and magical, like Two sticks make a fire

A Knitted Gem of a book

I love this little book and I'm not a knitter (I've spent more than two years trying to knit one hat!). Maria Fire is a knitter. She is also a poet and a teller of stories. The yarns that compose this gem of a book come in a rainbow of narrative hues. Stories from her past--of the old woman who taught her to knit, of friends who knit their way through sadness, of children and men who learned to knit. There are gleanings from other writers' stories about characters who knit, and of course, there is haiku. "Kitting with spirits/shedding again and again, what you think you know." One haiku for each narrative on a separate page of its own with the image of yarn or knitting needles to purl the two together. In one of my favorite stories in this book, "Stitches that Danced," Fire tells of the time she took her young boys to see the movie White Nights with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines. On the way out of the theater afterwards the boys "threw their hand up over their heads and sprang into the air. They left me behind, vaulting like Baryshnikov all the way to our small Toyota." Afterwards Zach, her eight-year-old signed up for a program of modern dance for children -- a "summer in the park" offering. For the recital, he wore the flowing and golden-flecked silk scarf that she had knitted for him. "As he danced with his friends, the scarf fluttered behind him," Fire writes. "He told me he felt like a magician making gold in the air." Is this not an enchanting idea -- young boy who thinks of himself as a magician dancing gold in the air? Fire knits more than gold into this lovely little book.

A gem and a joy!

One doesn't need to be a knitter to appreciate the meditative depth of this nugget awasa in vast spirit and great depth. Maria Fire explores Soul Territory--living in the present conscious of Presence, aware of the fullness of meaning in each daily detail. I will give KNIT ONE, HAIKU TOO to those I love most and those I hardly know. May we be blessed again and again with such gems from Maria Fire.