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Price: $17.95 USD.
ISBN: 978-0-6151-8246-9
Trade paperback. 120 pages, 6.00" x 9.00", perfect binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 100# exterior paper,
full-color exterior ink.
Here are 177 tanka culled from the past decade of Larry Kimmel’s work in this genre. Referred to as one of the seminal east-west fusionists,
Kimmel covers a wide range of subject matter including a love of land, urban nights, eroticism and philosophical speculation. He uses all
five senses, and while his method is imagistic, a certain heightened use of language is the hallmark of his craft.
Praise for the book:
As I read [Larry Kimmel’s] poems and enter into their fascinating ambiguity or momentary hunger or desire, I feel certain that the collection
is one of the seminal tanka books of the past decade. —Sanford Goldstein, renowned tanka-poet, translator, teacher
To read Larry Kimmel’s tanka is to journey with him through the subtly evoked landscapes of his experience, literal and psychological.
The stroller’s sidewalk and the mountain inhabited by a hermit poet are alike familiar to his perception, which is sometimes melancholy,
often ironic, always crisply imagistic. —Carol Purington, award-winning tanka-poet
Open this book! Pick any poem! I guarantee that you will be touched and pleasurably scarred forever by the delicate bittersweet musings of a
poet who, for fifty years/ through all weathers/ of the mind has loved the world. You will recognize yourself in the depths of his poetry.
—Kirsty Karkow, award-winning author of two collections of poetry and tanka editor for Simply Haiku
