The venerable tanka and her upstart cousin kyokamingle with Kerouac’s American pop haiku in five-liner imagistpoems and linked sequences. In Windfall Apples, RichardStevenson mixes east and west with backyard barbecue and ruefulreflection.
Richard Stevenson teaches English and CreativeWriting at Lethbridge College. His most recent books include alyric/narrative collection of poems, Wiser Pills (2008), andtwo collections of haiku, senryu, and tanka: The Emerald Hour(2008) and Tidings of Magpies (2008).