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A hand-crafted chapbook published in a limited edition by Conflux Press.
An exquisite presentation of gorgeous poems that explore the poet's experience of marriage and of entering a Japanese family through that marriage.
Her "Portrait of the bride" is particularly remarkable:
Remember the first words that were mine? Words he taught me before we met his parents. When I look at the picture and see her, the phrase comes back. Watashi wa Bebari desu. Dozo yoroshku. My name is Beverley. Please be nice to me. |
© 2010-2015 by Beverly Acuff Momoi. |
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Beverly Acuff Momoi's haibun collection Lifting the Towhee's Song is recently published by John Barlow's Snapshot Press and can be read online at: http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk/ebooks.htm.
This chapbook was awarded a 2011 Snapshot Press eChapbook Award for haibun written after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011.
All of the award-winning eChapbooks are free to read on the Snapshot website. Also included on that website are opportunities to submit haiku eChapbooks to Snapshot Press.
© 2012-2015 by Beverly Acuff Momoi. |
Momoi is featured in the 2015 A New Resonance 9, with sixteen other "emerging"poets.
The set of poets is:
ashes the admission of everything past tense |
© 2015-2015 by Stewart Baker. |
fiddleheads uncoiling all the time in the world |
© 2015-2015 by Claire Everett. |
low tide space where the ache used to be |
© 2015-2015 by Kate S. Godsey. |
father's day learning the right way to snake a drain |
© 2015-2015 by Ben Moeller-Gaa. |
snowflakes all the places she was childless |
© 2015-2015 by Polona Oblak. |
the closest I'll ever be to sentimental a room full of hats(though I don't see the need for the linebreak between L2 and L3). |
© 2015-2015 by William Sorlien. |
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