Breaking Ground Breaks Little Ground, But Makes A Good Bathroom Reader
Breaking Ground isn't entirely trash (unlike last year's Days Become Echoes which I will admit I was published in). You know, the BCC "Literary Magazine," that may or may not come out every year or so. I'm not in it this year, which is fine. I usually don't feel remorse at not having a projection of myself lost among a tirade of tired and all too personal and not too original poetic recounts of abuse. That's what usually passes for literature at Freshman and Sophmore institutions like Community College.
The Good
Interesting would be best to sum
The Bad
In Nineteen Haiku you essentially have nineteen haikus strung together describing one thing. Which defeats the purpose of a haiku. If one were to read Bashō, one would find very few actual verbs, because he used nouns and adjectives in a very abbreviated way to give the sense of action. For example:
The crescent lights
The misty ground.
Buckwheat flowers.
However, in many poems Bashō does use verbs, however he uses the verbs not as a current action, but as a general rule of the subject:
Summer zashiki
Make move and enter
The mountain and the garden.
Despite syntax, the brevity versus the rich idea that this particular author plants in one's mind is really what one should strive for with haiku, not merely 5-5-7 measure. Nineteen haikus to me, is not haiku, but actually a form of freestyle.
The Ugly
The Good
Interesting would be best to sum
The Bad
In Nineteen Haiku you essentially have nineteen haikus strung together describing one thing. Which defeats the purpose of a haiku. If one were to read Bashō, one would find very few actual verbs, because he used nouns and adjectives in a very abbreviated way to give the sense of action. For example:
The crescent lights
The misty ground.
Buckwheat flowers.
However, in many poems Bashō does use verbs, however he uses the verbs not as a current action, but as a general rule of the subject:
Summer zashiki
Make move and enter
The mountain and the garden.
Despite syntax, the brevity versus the rich idea that this particular author plants in one's mind is really what one should strive for with haiku, not merely 5-5-7 measure. Nineteen haikus to me, is not haiku, but actually a form of freestyle.
The Ugly