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Price: $18.95 USD.
ISBN: 978-0-6151-6201-0
Trade paperback. 60 pages, 6.00" x 9.00", perfect binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 100# exterior paper,
full-color exterior ink.
from the back cover . . .
“This book Eavesdropping has the comfortable feel of an easy chair on some old homestead porch to it. Alexis includes haiku penned about subjects such as “late-night swims, nursing piglets, hickory nuts and barley, lace-making, hometown fairs, polishing apples, tea cups, sliding boards and seesaws” . . . to name but a few. Yet perusing this book, one also comes to know the vast worldliness of its author in haiku like this one: From Gemini / a star drops / into the trees. Today, in our modern-day universe and contemporary society, these haiku are charmingly old-fashioned albeit inusitate and unconstrained. Alexis Rotella gives us every opportunity to soar higher and higher with her, not only poetically, but spiritually.”
— an’ya, editor of moonset, The Newspaper
“How fortunate we all are, readers of all ages and walks of life, that these memorable poems have been published once again. Turning the pages of this book is a magical experience. Even with the recent increased interest in reading and writing English language haiku, Rotella’s poems stand out as excellent examples of the form—as much now as they did twenty years ago. These poems exhibit freshness, exuberance and gentle humor. Following Rotella through the seasons of a year will surely raise the spirits of every reader. With this collection, the reader is gently made aware of aspects of the seasons, nature and human nature that often lie unnoticed. Rotella removes the veil with an artful humor and spiritual sensitivity that makes this book a gift to be treasured.”
— Kirsty Karkow, award-winning author of water poems: haiku, tanka and sijo and shorelines: haiku, haibun and tanka
