Tag: Issa

• * short lyrics: (pre)spring mix

  As I am on the road – in Corpus Christi, Texas promoting Everything We Think We Hear to be exact – I thought I would do a short, fun post of some seasonal short lyrics. Could be that the winters in Cincinnati are tough that I’ve got spring on my mind already. I’d like to say…

  José Angel Araguz

  March 11, 2016

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  arts, astrology, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, creative writing, Edward Thomas, Eugene Oregon, haiku, Issa, Izumi Shikibu, Jane Hirshfield, Jose Angel Araguz, Kay Ryan, literature, lyric poems, Pisces, poetry, publication, Robert Hass, short lyric poems, Spring, tanka, the friday influence, The Ink Dark Moon, Virgo, writing

• * milosz and some friends

  Recently read an interview with Czeslaw Milosz where he says: “My motto could be that haiku of Issa—“We walk on the roof of Hell / gazing at flowers.” ” * Which speaks to the power of the short lyric poem – a haiku in this case – that it can be carried in one’s mental…

  José Angel Araguz

  April 18, 2012

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  Czeslaw Milosz, Don Wentworth, Issa, Jose Angel Araguz, Lilliput Review, poetry