Woodnotes — #8
Winter 1991
Woodnotes #8 announced a new HPNC anthology to acknowledge the Gulf War that started with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August of 1990. In addition to a generous selection of haiku and senryu, this issue continued the “Haiku Stops” column with invited commentary on a selected haiku. This issue’s major feature, though, was an interview with Jane Hirshfield by Lequita Vance. Hirshfield said that “traditional Japanese poetry is unique in its poetic strategies: the use of imagery of the natural world and fairly simple statements to embody and convey a precise instance of human experience. The feelings and situations of the poems are often deeply complex, yet they are accessible even to nonreaders of poetry because of the particular way in which they are put forth.” In addition, notes from the editors announced that Paul O. Williams was stepping down as one of the founding editors of Woodnotes.
Staff
Editors: vincent tripi and Paul O. Williams
Associate editor, typesetting, and layout: Michael Dylan Welch
Cover art: Japanese art sourced by Lequita Vance
Pages 20
Haiku/Senryu 65
Essays 2
Reports 1
Mini-Reviews 7
Editorials 2
Contents
“War in the Gulf” announcement of the 1991 Gulf War haiku anthology
Haiku and Senryu
“Haiku Stops,” with haiku commentary by Davina Kosh, Elaine Sherlund, Christopher Herold, and Ce Rosenow
“An Interview with Jane Hirshfield, Co-Translator of The Ink Dark Moon” by Lequita Vance
Woodnotes (news)
Mini Reviews by vincent tripi
Editors’ Notes by vincent tripi and Paul O. Williams (a farewell message from Paul, ending his tenure as coeditor)
Meeting Report
Selected Poems
a city parking space
appears and disappears
in fog
Marianne Monaco
hitchhiker
as we drive past
his eyes
Sharon Lee Shafii
pesky fly
in the polling booth
also undecided
Ruth Holter
raking aside leaves
on the backyard pool
I release the moon
H. F. Noyes
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