Ripples from a Splash

My book, Ripples from a Splash: A Collection of Haiku Essays with Award-Winning Haiku, is now available through Lulu .

Ripples from a Splash:
A Collection of Haiku Essays with Award-Winning Haiku

By Chen-ou Liu

A Room of My Own Press, c2011.

Ebook, 131 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9868947-0-1

I like Chen-ou Liu’s poetry. His haiku resonates the Asian spirit, and makes use of aesthetics in a continuum of time that is permanent and impermanent; the process more important than the subjective specificity of object bias found in most Anglo-Western haiku like poems. His poetry demand to be interpreted by the informed reader. They do not tell all, are not based on an “aha” moment, and have no definitive ending. More importantly they give meaning and voice to the unsaid, the magic inherent in Japanese poetry.

-- Review by Robert D. Wilson, Editor-in-chief of Simply HaikuNote: my book can be viewed online