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Volume 33.2
Summer 2002

book review

Chirp
by Tim Sampson

 

reviewed by Robert Spiess

Chirp by Tim Sampson, 2001. 36 pages, 3 1/2" x 4". $5.00 postpaid from the author at Main Floor, 923-1st Ave, NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 3CO, Canada.

 

One-to-a-page haiku and senryu in this chapbook. A sampling of four:

not going gently
into the dark bag
ivy clippings

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after bouncing
off the monk's bald head
hail lands gently

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chased by a child
but the pigeon never far
from the french fly (sic)

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communal fridge
tin marked
with the cat's name

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Bruce Ross begins a brief preface to the book with "Here is the sensibility of an itinerant Zen man . . .

 

 

 

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