Frogpond 34.3 • Autumn 2011 (pdf) - Haiku Society of America

meeting is completely itself, part and whole neither vanish
nor are separate. This seems to me something worth noticing,
worth storing in repeatable words, worth practicing. Isolation
is real, the solitude of the self is real, but interconnection is
equally real. A good haiku keeps us in the particular and multiple,
not the generic. It stops us from leaning too far in any
direction.
CE: Thank you again, Jane, for participating in this interview
and providing additional insights into your essay, The Heart
of Haiku.
NOTE: Jane Hirshfi eld’s The Heart of Haiku is available from Amazon.
com as a $0.99 Kindle Single, and can be read on any computer or smart
phone, not only Kindles, with a free download. A new book of poetry,
Come, Thief, has also just been published, by Knopf.
Ce Rosenow is the current President of the Haiku Society of
America. She is the author of seven books and chapbooks and
the co-editor with Bob Arnold of The Next One Thousand Years:
Selected Poems of Cid Corman. Her poetry, articles, and translations
have been published in journals and anthologies in the U.S.
and abroad.
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