– click on the cover to read the issue as a flipbook –
– R’r 12.3 (downloadable PDF) –
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scorpion prize 27 by Craig Dworkin
70+ new poems
Part I of an interview with translator Makoto Ueda
MASKS 4
3 essays by Jack Galmitz on the work of Robert Boldman, Richard Gilbert, & Mark Harris
& the announcement of a new section in R’r: homeland
submission deadline for 13.1 is April 1, 2013: scott@roadrunnerjournal.net
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Le fils de l’homme / The Son of Man by René Magritte (1964)
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tr. by Burton Watson / From the Country of Eight Islands
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tr. by Burton Watson / Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems
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1960 / Haiku: This Other World (#436)
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September 21 1965 # e b ’ / The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner
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/ Poems 1966-1967 [Pages, Random House, 1969]
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/ A 2nd Flake (1974)
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/ Modern Haiku 6.2 (1975)
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/ Gendai Haiku Kyokai Sakuhin-Shû (Modern Haiku Association Anthology), 1982 tr. by Fay Aoyagi
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/ Opera in the Human Body (1990) [Turquoise Milk, Red Moon Press 2011]
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/ Modern Haiku 35.1 (2004)
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/ Haiku Shiki (Haiku Four Seasons), October 2008; created from a tr. by Fay Aoyagi
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/ Ginyu 42 (2009)
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/ MASKS ONE (2009)
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/ R’r 9.1 (2009)
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Chris Gordon :: Jack Dander
MASKS ONE (2009)
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/ Ginyu 42 (2009)
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:: Jack Dander / MASKS 2 (2009)
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/ Ginyu 42 (2009)
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/ R’r 9.2 (2009)
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/ The Heron’s Nest 12.1 (2010)
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/ R’r 10.1 (2010)
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/ R’r 10.3 (2010)
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/ Haidan (Haiku Stage), September 2011; new arrangement using a tr. by Fay Aoyagi
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/ A Hundred Gourds 1.1 (2011)
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A few days ago Ron Silliman commented on English-language haiku and minimalist poetry on his blog, and so I thought it would be good timing to share the Scorpion Prize he wrote here, wherein he selected and commented on his favorite ku from issue 9.2 (May 2009) of R’r. As always, chime in on his selections and comments if ye like.
Here’s what Ron had to say:
The first time I read through the ku section of May’s Roadrunner, I realized just how foolish I had been in offering to judge the Scorpion Prize from among its contributions. There were at least a half dozen works that stood out for me from a very strong collection overall. My immediate thought was that whomever I designate, I will surely be guilty of an injustice to several others. Rereading the selection several times – mostly with the names “turned off” (tho I know none of the contributors personally) – did not change this initial sensation of guilt, but I did gradually keep returning to two works that lasted with me long after I had stopped reading. Both are thoroughly worthy of the Scorpion Prize & therefore they must share it. The first of these poems is Lorin Ford’s
which jolted me both for its perceptual accuracy & its originality. It reverses our expectations of “nature poetry” in a way that is entirely true to the greater tradition. The second, Doug Kutney’s
does much the same thing, albeit with a somewhat more subtle & ironic slant to it. Once you have read either of these poems, they are impossible to let go of. You start seeing the world through their almost shared lenses.
Having said this I also want to acknowledge the poems by Paul Pfleuger, Jr., all of which are quite good, as well as the Latin-flavored trio by Michael McClintock & especially the humor in Michael Dylan Welch’s fourth “neon buddha” poem – the one laugh-out-loud moment in the entire selection. All of these writers make me want to read more.
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& here’s another look at those ku mentioned at the end of his piece:
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