Poetry in the Moment: Sudden News Tanka

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Sudden News Tanka

sudden news
of her breast cancer...
I add
one more lump of sugar
to my morning coffee

German Translation by Tony Böhle

plötzlich die Nachricht
von ihrem Brustkrebs…
in meinen Morgenkaffee
gebe ich
noch einen Würfel Zucker

Featured Poet, Einunddreissig, November 2015

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My book is now available through www.lulu.com [Liu's] 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. -- Poetry Review by Robert D. Wilson, Editor-in-chief of Simply Haiku.

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