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Oklahoma Heat. Haiku by Marc Thompson. Red Moon Press: 2006. 16 pages. ISBN:
1-893959-53-8: saddle stapled softbound, 5 in. x 4 in. $5.00. Red Moon
Press has a standard shipping charge of $4.00 whether one or one hundred
books are purchased.
Red Moon Press, P.O. Box 2461, Winchester, Virginia 22604-1661, (540)
722-2156.
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Book cover:
Marc
Thompson is a well-traveled poet whose addresses have included the Great
North and Mid-Atlantic. This volume, however, concerns itself with the
regions of his youth, the sandy, oil-filled Plains of Oklahoma, and his
recent return there. It is a brief and poignant reminiscence on the old
trope of going home again, performed afresh in haibun and haiku, graffiti
and native song. What we drop by the wayside is as important as what we
keep, and the poet, without belaboring the point, is able to communicate
clearly which is which: the surprise of what he learns along the way is well
worth knowing.
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