wind and rain (writing in one breath)

By Ai Li

wind and rain is ai li's first book of exclusively Tanka poems. Her earlier books have been a melange of Haiku and Tanka. It is her twentieth book and it belongs to her Poems for Inner Rooms series which are all available on Amazon. This book explores the poet's search for true identity and self and why we should not be afraid to be our true selves. ai li's tanka will take you on a healing journey with words, minimal in content, but overflowing with personal truths and the deepest of emotions. She writes without armour. Here is one example from this book :- rain in the empty tin can the sound of my evening This book of 90 virgin tanka poems belongs to a collection of life journals written as contemporary haiku and tanka, and cherita. These are poems for inner rooms. They take poetry into the realm of spirit and are touched by zen, loss, joy, the surreal, temps perdu, the erotic, humour, truth, the everyday, and the sublime. All the six senses are here. The book has been edited to be experienced two ways. It can be read as a storybook and as an anthology of individual poems. ai li 's poems have been widely published in the UK, USA, and Japan. One of her six word haiku has been included in 'Haiku in English - The First Hundred Years' which features work by Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, E E Cummings and many others, and is published in hardback by WW Norton & Co, New York 2013. She is the creator of Cherita and has also created seventeen original linked forms akin to renku aka renga. She lives quietly and mindfully in London and writes in a Rousseau inspired dream yard watched over by three old stone buddhas. ai li is the editor and publisher of the cherita. a monthly journal which is available in paperback and on kindle on Amazon, and the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 198098722X
• ISBN13: 9781980987222
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"