LAURA MAFFEI: DROPS FROM HER UMBRELLA Inkling Press PO Box 52014 Edmonton AB T6G 2T5 Canada ISBN 0 9737674 2 1 $18 visit the website of Inkling Press Web design by This page last updated: 14th December 2007. |
LAURA MAFFEI: DROPS FROM HER UMBRELLA | |
Well over a hundred haiku from the editor of American Tanka, with one or two pieces per page. There is an interesting, eclectic array of tanka, with affectionate glimpses of visits to the poet's parents, her life with her husband, the hours at the office and many other themes. There are some excellent observational pieces, as is shown by this finely-drawn one, with its enviable tightness and succinctness: sunny day unexpectedly a hearse in my rear-view mirror and the long line behind itHere is another graphic example, which captures the described situation so ably: how my tongue is tied years after graduation trying to speak well over the telephone with an old professorWhere Laura Maffei is particularly good is in her acute observation of women; here are three representative examples: on the walk home the woman in front of me has the slit of her skirt and the slit of her slip lined up perfectly that woman's fashionable brown shoes the redness where they're cutting her just above the instep women our handbags touching as we jostle each other down the ferry steps | ||
reviewer: Alan Hardy. |