Greg Seitz

A hawk sits watching Nervous mice in grassy ditch Nest in winter’s sand

This new 90 page magazine-book hybrid, subtitled “Nowhere Else But Here,” is based on a project I undertook last June, writing every day for the whole month (one of Minnesota’s finest months).

For the project, I observed the progress and passing of June using the Japanese form haibun. That’s a fancy word for something that is simply, beautifully, the combination of prose and haiku poetry (you know, three lines of five, seven and five syllables, respectively).

In this collection, the prose tells of the journey through the season, and the haiku are images captured on that journey.

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