In and Out of Fog
In and Out of Fog
Lee Gurga
Preface by Randy M. Brooks
Illustrations by Lidia Rozmus
Forty-four finely honed poems in six sequenced chapters by an acknowledged master of English-language haiku, in a letterpress edition printed by Swamp Press. Winner of First Place in the 1998 Merit Book Awards from the Haiku Society of America (for books published in 1997).
fresh scent—
the labrador’s muzzle
deeper into snow
To order for $20.00 plus shipping, please contact Press Here.
1997, letterpress, hand-sewn paper, 60 pages, 5 x 5 inches, ISBN 1-878798-17-0
“Lee’s haiku . . . are the steady, exact images of authentic living. Lee does not try to pare a haiku down to a linguistic puzzle, nor does he pad it out to some ‘ideal’ syllable count. His haiku turn on the experience itself, with enough phrasing to establish voice but enough brevity to leave the significance to the reader’s own imagination. Each of Lee’s haiku has the integrity of lived experience, and yet he opens up each moment so that it is no longer merely his own. He offers these moments to us as living gifts. I trust we are alive enough to fully receive them.” —from the preface by Randy Brooks
Lee Gurga lives in the country near Lincoln, Illinois, with wife Jan, sons Ben, A.J., and Alex, dog Fay, a snail, and five Haflinger horses. In 1997 he served as president of the Haiku Society of America.
See the Brooks Books profile.