Of Pen & Ink & Paper Scraps

by Lucien Stryk

Book Overview

The first of this new collection's three parts ranges very widely, from poems of childhood-his own, his children's, and his grandchild's-to poems of keen social and political awareness, and on to pieces about his neighbors, about growing more firmly and deeply into a personal place.

The collection's second part, devoted completely to the poet's favorite of all the great haiku poets of Japan, Issa, "Issa: A Suite of Haiku," is made up of 72...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804009198
• ISBN13: 9780804009195
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 77 Pages