Clear Light
โ Scribed by Alan Spence
- Book ID
- 110732037
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 8 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781847677051
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit.Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships, breakthroughs and frustrations of the world of the momentary.Simple in form, these haiku request a fresh look at the familiar and leave us reeling at how much in the world, from the exotic to the everyday, we have yet to observe.
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