ABC ISSUE NO.6:
Haiku Not Bombs
by Collectivo Haiku: Tom Gilroy, Jim McKay, Shi Yu Pai, Grant-Lee Phillips, Allison Roth, Rick Roth, Denise Siegel, Patrick So

Published by Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2008

6.25x9.25”
44 pages
Letterpressed cover, offset interior.
Numbered edition of 1000 copies.
Interior design by Phoebe Flynn Rich.
Series II design by Stacy Wakefield Forte, based on the original ABC Series.
Cover photo by Jason Workman

The diversity of poetic form in Haiku Not Bombs extends from one-line hokku and the Filipino hay(na)ku to linked verses (renga) and the loose Western style haiku favored by writers Jack Kerouac and American practitioners of the craft.

over Narathiwat, Thailand
one hundred million
paper cranes

missives of peace—
war is over
if you believe

haiku
not bombs
origami art of war

~Shin Yu Pai

The authors of this haiku collection are a doctor, two filmmakers, an activist, a musician, a playwright, and a poet from wide-ranging backgrounds who set out to write one poem for every week of the year. Haiku Not Bombs is the result of this collaborative project, a fluid collection of poems touching on themes of modernity, urban life and the everyday.

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