Atlas Poetica 36 : A Journal of World Tanka Published by Keibooks
Atlas Poetica
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14 February 2019
Atlas Poetica 36 : A Journal of World Tanka
List Price: $13.95
8.5" x 11” (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Black & White on White paper
ISBN-13: 9781795511230
Also available for Kindle.
BISAC: Poetry / General
Readers will find selections of tanka, kyoka, ryuka, sedoka, cherita, tanka prose, sequences, responsive tanka, and non-fiction representing sixteen countries from around the world. The increasing complexity of the techniques and tools brought to tanka and its literature capitalize on the multivalency that is an innate quality of tanka: the ability of tanka to imply more than they say links with various forms and formats, harnessing their ability to express different kinds of content in different ways in one harmonious whole. Yet the craftsmanship of tanka should not blind us to the role of intuition. Several items, some quite long, read like stream-of-consciousness works of the Beat period, but carry the discipline of a tanka mind.
Sample Poems
You could see now
he’s sucking the ugliness
out of her
putting tenderness
into her limbs
Bruce England
cleaning off
old patio chairs
to make the perfect
sunning spot for
someone who is no longer here
Grunge
the wedding ring
slipped from her bony hand
into the storm drain
she sat on the curb and cried
for now she had truly lost him
M. Kei
black beady eyes
watch me
watching you
a mink dangles the mouse
in its clenched jaws
Marilyn Morgan
your arm
around a strange boy's shoulders
in the bar —
trying to make me jealous
was what you most enjoyed
Ruth Holzer
With her torn cotton candy-pink t-shirt she covered the puddle on the concrete floor beneath her. Absorbing the moisture, the fabric turned dark pink, then purple. A bruise. A bruise bleeding the heartbreaking stink of dread.
Nadžida was six.
Tanja Trček
Contributors:
A. A. Marcoff, Alexis Rotella, Amelia Fielden, Anne Benjamin, Autumn Noelle Hall, Barun Saha, Bruce England, Carol Raisfield, Charles Harmon, Chen-ou Liu, Dave Read, Debbie Strange, Elizabeth Howard, Elizabeth Moura, Genie Nakano, Gerry Jacobson, Grunge, Jackie Chou, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Jan Foster, Jenny Ward Angyal, Joanna Ashwell, John S. Gilbertson, John Wisdom, Joy McCall, Julie Bloss Kelsey, Kath Abela Wilson, Kira Nash, Larry Kimmel, Laurinda Lind, Lee Felty, Liz Lanagan, Lorne Henry, M. Kei, Marilyn Morgan, Mark Jun Poulos, Marshall Bood, Mary Ellen Gambutti, Maryalicia Post, Matsukaze, Michael H. Lester, Neal Whitman, Patricia Prime, Paul Callus, Paweł Markiewicz, Peter Fiore, Richard Grahn, Richard Kakol, Richard St. Clair, Roman Lyakhovetsky, Ruth Holzer, Sean Reagan, Steve Black, Tanja Trček
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<a href="http://AtlasPoetica.org">Submit to <i>Atlas Poetica : A Journal of World Tanka</i>. Guidelines are available at the website. </a>
Back issues of Atlas Poetica are available to read for free online. Visitors to the site will also want to check out the Resources section for more information about tanka, kyoka, gogyoshi, sedoka, cherita, tanka prose, tanka sequences, and more.
Submissions are read year-round for Atlas Poetica. Complete guidelines are on the website.
Atlas Poetica : A Journal of World Tanka
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