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First published in Woodnotes #20, Spring 1994, pages 38. See also my “Directions in Tanka” essay, which focuses largely
on this book as a launching pad to discussing larger issues regarding tanka poetry.
No Love Poems by Kenneth Tanemura. Small Poetry Press, 1994, 28 pages, paperback, 5½ by 8½ inches. $5.00 postpaid from the author at 10 Wayne Court, Redwood City, California, 94063 [address no longer correct]. Kenneth’s first book of poetry offers 28 tanka and 30 haiku. The book is divided into four sections, “No Love,” “Hopelessness,” “Consoled in Dreams,” and “Consoled in Nature.” The last of these sections seems the strongest, and offers mostly haiku. A sampling of three choice haiku:
a single leaf falling
and with it
the morning dew
the first petals
to fall from the branch . . .
summer rain
this cold night
the abandoned car
covered with leaves
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