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Volume 35.2
Summer 2004

 

book review:

Rhubarb: The Collected Haiku of Bud Goodrich
by Bud Goodrich

 

reviewed by EZ

Rhubarb: The Collected Haiku of Bud Goodrich (Evanston, Ill.: Deep North Press, 2003), 42 unnumbered pages, 5H½ x 5H½, saddle-stapled. ISBN 1-929116-9-8. $8.00 postpaid in the U.S. from Deep North Press, 2634 Prairie Ave., Evanston, IL 60201. (Make checks to “Charles Trumbull” please.)

 

It takes a different type of poet to title his first collection Rhubarb!, and I suspect that author Bud Goodrich would welcome the label of “different.” These senryu and occasional haiku span topics from baseball to General Patton to the organist at a hockey game, all seen with the same eccentric sense of humor. A sample:

Hall of Fame—
Pete Rose entering
extra innings

Hoisting too many—
even my fists
hung over

 

 

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