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ATLAS POETICA A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka Number 18 Summer, 2014 M. Kei, editor Amora Johnson, technical director Yancy Carpentier, editorial assistant 2014 Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA KEIBOOKS P O Box 516 Perryville, Maryland, USA 21903 AtlasPoetica.org [email protected] Atlas Poetica A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka Copyright © 2014 by Keibooks All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by reviewers and scholars who may quote brief passages. See our EDUCATIONAL USE NOTICE. Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka, a triannual print and e-journal, is dedicated to publishing and promoting fine poetry of place in modern English tanka (including variant forms). Atlas Poetica is interested in both traditional and innovative verse of high quality and in all serious attempts to assimilate the best of the Japanese waka/tanka/kyoka/gogyoshi genres into a continuously developing English short verse tradition. In addition to verse, Atlas Poetica publishes articles, essays, reviews, interviews, letters to the editor, etc., related to tanka poetry of place. Tanka in translation from around the world are welcome in the journal. ISBN 978-0615985374 (Print) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial asylum, Murasame & Matsukaze ................28 Educational Use Notice ...............................4 Nevada Hills, Matsukaze & Murasame .......29 Numinous Tanka, M. Kei ................................5 the burning day, Matsukaze & Murasame ....29 charred remains, Matsukaze & Murasame ....30 Tanka in Sets and Sequences The Morrigan Returns, Carole Johnston .......30 Going to Gore Orphanage, Tish Davis ...............7 Siren, Bernice Yap ......................................31 Abyss, Alexander Jankiewicz .........................7 The Birthday Party, Sergio Ortiz ..................31 Memorial Day: The Ghost of Charlie Miller, M. Striding Eagle, Brian Zimmer ......................32 Kei ........................................................8 Agitator, Marilyn Humbert .........................32 Tom blan d, Joy McCall ...................................9 Unnamed Road, Marilyn Humbert ..............33 Elemental, Kath Abela Wilson & Brian Katsura Rikyū, Marilyn Humbert ...............33 Zimmer ...............................................10 Sky Blue, Genie Nakano .............................34 the child had to play, Joy McCall ...................11 Reasons to Not Return, Geoffrey Winch ........34 The Song of the Sea and Mountain, Sonam Lost Worlds, Jenny Ward Angyal .................35 Chhoki & Sergio Ortiz .......................12 Childhood of Christ, Gerry Jacobson ............35 A Book of Houses, Leslie Ihde ......................14 Crossroads, Charles Tarlton .........................36 the fate of the yoxie, Joy McCall & Shading, Charles Tarlton............................. 37 Kate Franks ........................................15 Calliope/My Ex: Love/Trouble Maker, Chen-ou Eleven Stones, Debbie Strange .....................16 Liu .......................................................38 Selkie Sisters, Debbie Strange ......................17 Trees, Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton ..........17 Individual Tanka ..............................................40 Skeletons in a Pantry, Genie Nakano............. 17 Feeling Paris, Natsuko Wilson ......................18 Articles Knocknarea, Autumn Noelle Hall & Claire Review: Poetry and Melancholy: Jeffrey Woodward’s Everett .................................................19 Another Garden, reviewed by Charles Tarlton63 Camino, Carole Harrison ...........................20 Review: January, A Tanka Diary by M. Kei, a penny for the guy, Joy McCall ......................21 reviewed by Patricia Prime .........................69 the morphing garden, Michael Dunwoody ......22 Review: A Rumination on M. Kei’s January, A Tanka Earthly Carapace, Sonam Chhoki ................23 Diary, reviewed by Jeffrey Harpeng ............71 shall we gather, Joy McCall ..........................24 Review: This Short Life : Minimalist Tanka, by ghosts, Joy McCall ......................................24 Sanford Goldstein, reviewed by Joy McCall73 ancestors, Joy McCall ...................................25 Mini-Review: circling smoke, scattered bones, by Joy over the rail, Joy McCall ...............................25 McCall, reviewed by Steve Wilkinson ........73 traces of light, Tim Lenton & Joy McCall ...26 Tanka in Three Lines?, Matsukaze .......................74 holding the shape, Joy McCall & Tim Lenton26 The Problem of Tanka : Definition and Differentiation, a stirring of belief, Joy McCall & Tim Lenton 27 M. Kei .......................................................77 erosion, Tim Lenton & Joy McCall .............27 the scent of ancestors, Matsukaze & Announcements ...............................................95 Murasame .......................................... 28 Biographies ......................................................98 Educational Use Notice Keibooks of Perryville, Maryland, USA, publisher of the journal, Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka, is dedicated to tanka education in schools and colleges, at every level. It is our intention and our policy to facilitate the use of Atlas Poetica and related materials to the maximum extent feasible by educators at every level of school and university studies. Educators, without individually seeking permission from the publisher, may use Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka’s online digital editions and print editions as primary or ancillary teaching resources. Copyright law “Fair Use” guidelines and doctrine should be interpreted very liberally with respect to Atlas Poetica precisely on the basis of our explicitly stated intention herein. This statement may be cited as an effective permission to use Atlas Poetica as a text or resource for studies. Proper attribution of any excerpt to Atlas Poetica is required. This statement applies equally to digital resources and print copies of the journal. Individual copyrights of poets, authors, artists, etc., published in Atlas Poetica are their own property and are not meant to be compromised in any way by the journal’s liberal policy on “Fair Use.” Any educator seeking clarification of our policy for a particular use may email the Editor of Atlas Poetica at [email protected]. We welcome innovative uses of our resources for tanka education. Atlas Poetica Keibooks P O Box 516 Perryville, MD 21903 <http://AtlasPoetica.org> Numinous Tanka Last fall, I edited two special features that in his hand; if not, it’s a dizzy leap from the received an overflow of submissions. The cliffs above a thrashing sea. Garage, Not the Garden : Tanka of Urban Magic is very much in the eye of the Life filled the double-sized special feature, beholder, but whether the spooks herein plus issue 17 of Atlas Poetica, while All frighten you or make you laugh, we are Hallow’s Evening : Supernatural Tanka has certain that you have never met anything like nearly taken over issue 18. That these two the cavalcade of spirits unleashed within ‘unconventional’ themes (by tanka standards) these pages. saw such a large response advertises tanka’s In addition, our expansion from eighty- untapped potential—this small form really four pages to one hundred and four pages can handle any content that the poet cares to enables us to publish tanka in translation pour into it. from around the world, book reviews, and This is not surprising given the divine non-fiction on a variety of subjects of interest origin of the form; it was invented by the to readers and writers of tanka in every issue. goddess Wakahime (“Poetry Princess”) who Next issue we will have a focus on poets taught humans how to make both from India and South Asia wherever they incantations and ordinary songs in the tanka may be. We invite submissions by poets of form. For several centuries thereafter, it was and writers upon the Indian/South Asian not unusual for the gods themselves to theme. We will also focus on responsive and contribute tanka to anthologies. The human collaborative tanka, and are open to poet through whom they spoke was merely submissions of nonfiction articles and book the channel. The numinous nature of tanka reviews relating to either focus. is amply illustrated by the plethora of tanka As always, we will consider tanka, waka, in this issue that tap into mythology, religion, kyoka, gogyoshi, tanka prose and tanka legend, fantasy, magic, horror, and the most sequences of any sort, but will choose mysterious topic of all, Death. thematic items first. However much space In these pages you will find urban remains will be filled with other works. legends, headless horsemen, wendigos, aliens, curses, wishes, myths, magic, Gothic tales, ~K~ and much more. Our poets draw upon the collective psyches of cultures around the M. Kei world: from the tomb of Baudelaire to the Editor, Atlas Poetica neolithic stones of Ireland, from the wilds of The Betsiboka River empties into Bombetoka Bay in New Jersey to the tremulous heights of the northwest Madagascar. Himalayas, from the musket fire of the American Revolution to the coco leaves of Cover Image courtesy of Earth Observatory, NASA. the Andes, we find ourselves keeping <http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/ company with travelers,
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