| Haiku Days of Remembrance: In Honor of My Father Contributor(s): Moss, Ron (Illustrator), Epstein, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1732502307 ISBN-13: 9781732502307 Publisher: Middle Island Press OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.78 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Haiku has the power to heal great loss, because it reveals to one's heart the midnight truth about life-and-death, which our everyday consciousness relegates to the margins. In the poems here that honor my father's life, the gap appearing between life and death is diminished. My father lives on in these haiku, which were mainly (but not exclusively) written in remembrance on his death day: the second Sunday in June over the past sixteen years. My father is your father is every father. Walk with me in haiku remembrance of my Dad through which the unbreakable bonds of love point us all back in the direction of wholeness. As novelist Thornton Wilder observed: "The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude." |