Free Fall Yellow (2010), Lifting the Towhee's Song (2012), and other poems of Beverly Acuff Momoi
Features of Free Fall Yellow (2010)
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.
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© 2010-2015 by Beverly Acuff Momoi.
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Features of Lifting the Towhee's Song (2012)
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.
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© 2012-2015 by Beverly Acuff Momoi.
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Featured in A New Resonance 9 (2015)
Momoi is featured in the 2015
A New Resonance 9,
with sixteen other "emerging"poets.
The set of poets is:
- Stewart Baker - the baby of the group at a mere 33 years! He has several
one-liners and my favorite is probably:
ashes the admission of everything past tense
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© 2015-2015 by Stewart Baker.
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- Brad Bennett — I specially like his "New Year's resolutions" but that is
probably because I have made so many myself!
- Claire Everett — she is long overdue for inclusion in this series. One of my
favorites is another 1-liner with multiple readings:
fiddleheads uncoiling all the time in the world
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© 2015-2015 by Claire Everett.
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- Kate S. Godsey — another "overdue" poet. I like her:
low tide
space where the ache
used to be
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© 2015-2015 by Kate S. Godsey.
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- Cara Holman — some good ones.
- P.M.F. Johnson — a funny guy; nice to have the leavening of his mascular
slants.
- Gregory Longenecker — many favorites here — 17 of them! And long over-due.
- Jonathan McKeown — again some good ones.
- Ben Moeller-Gaa — I've long been a fan of his work - I love the "garden of
eden" undertone of:
father's day
learning the right way
to snake a drain
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© 2015-2015 by Ben Moeller-Gaa.
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- Beverly Acuff Momoi — wonderful collection.
- Polona Oblak — Though I wish they'd included
some of her published work (at least I assume that they meant to put
"unpublished" instead of "xxx"). Her best is (if I'm right to alter
"place"):
snowflakes all the places she was childless
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© 2015-2015 by Polona Oblak.
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- Thomas Powell — again some good ones.
- Brendan Slater — again some good ones.
- William Sorlien — I've liked his work for a while. My favorite
was his:
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).
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© 2015-2015 by William Sorlien.
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- Michelle Tennison - again some good ones.
- Scott Terrill.
- Julie Warther - good solid work.
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