Bashō's Road

to the small poem and the quiet voice within

1. Nancy 06.13.11 / 3pm

   Norb-Thank you for your posting of Markowski’s poems-Walt Whitman American English language and Basho form-a delightful combination! You are a master at bringing this poetic to our attention. Keep looking and we’ll keep discovering.
   A Reader
2. Phil Hansotia 06.19.11 / 3pm

   Dear Norb, Ed Markowski is indeed challenging. Haiku, as I understand it, is meditative poetry, with a conscious observation followed by an intuitive/subconscious response. I feel like a Barbarian at the gates of Rome, when I say, that I find Markowski mostly obscure or difficult to appreciate. — because it is expressed through a missing linkage?Its either my pure naivete or the Barbarian at the gate–both would be accurate. Thanks, Phil Hansotia
3. Bruce Hodder 06.19.11 / 6pm

   Fabulous. The silences between words are incredibly important in poetry, especially this sort, of course. And it’s easy to get that Basho form wrong. Ed doesn’t.
4. Dylan Tweney 06.26.11 / 5pm

   Thanks for posting these, Norb. Ed Markowski is one of the true masters of American vernacular. I don’t know anyone who plumbs the depths with such regular-guy language as deeply as he does, or as entertainingly.

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