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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AWARD FINALIST~ Poetry Society of America
Perfect Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Snapshot Press; 1st edition (May 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1903543223
ISBN-13: 978-1903543221
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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A long-time fan of Roberta Beary's haiku and senryu, I just wrote a lengthy review of this book at my weblog, f/k/a, which has an audience of lawyers and haiku poets. Most lovers of fine haiku don't know or care that Roberta has a law degree and is a real estate finance attorney. For them, she's not "the best lawyer haiku poet;" she's quite simply one of the best haiku poets alive -- and she has proven it in haiku journals, contests and anthologies, year in and year out, for over a decade. But, we've been waiting for a full-length volume of her work. Therefore, The Unworn Necklace is a long-awaited, much-anticipated haikai milestone.I'm not into "poetic" language. I especially like the focus of haiku and senryu on the concrete, the small things that are part of everyday life. Roberta excels at that focus, while courageously revealing moments (as well as cycles and seasons) of pain, understanding that darkness and hurt (from divorcing to watching your parents become frail) are not only natural parts of life, but can be as life-affirming as the joys and beauty she also finds and shares.Filled with poems that will surely be hailed as "classics", this collection will leave haiku lovers wanting a sequel. And, if given the chance, it will create haiku lovers out of a lot of people who swear, like me, that they really don't like poetry.
The Unworn Necklace is a highly enjoyable collection of haiku and senryu by one of the best practitioners of these genres in English. Readers of poetry other than haiku might find it easier to respond to the more personal poems, such as:no longer marriedonly their shadows touch. . . graduation day*mother's visitside by side we outlineour lipsBut the same quiet insight and humor also underlies the nature poems:turning awayfrom the pear tree . . .turning backThe Unworn Necklace is a handsome book as well. John Barlow and Snapshot Press are doing their part to bring haiku in English into the mainstream of literature in the West.
Roberta Beary has written another gem in "The Unworn Necklace." Her haiku has the power to reach into the corners of the heart.harvest moonthe long pullof faraway childrenMake poetry of everyday matters,spring morningthe vacuum's cord snaps backinto itselfAnd, evoke long buried memories or make us smile. This collection, perhaps her best, is filled with observations on life cast in beautifully chosen language creating a vivid mind-scene.
The Deeper Quiet: this haiku collection is a composite of still-life images that substantiate the variegated motions and emotions in a life. As our life events change, so, too, do we change and exchange one reality for another, one name for another: the sound of the name I used to have soft falling snowWe are driven deeper into an awareness that may pain us as those transitional periods in life take over and define: . . . summer's end unable to go unable to stayAnd sometimes it is something as insignificant as a necklace given to us by a loved one which signifies the weight of relentless regret: all day long I feel its weight the unworn necklaceThe "bittersweet poignancy" (as Rosenstock's blurb says) of this collection is a telling awareness of what it means to be human. empty room a teacup holds the lightThis is a fine collection from an accomplished poet. -Marjorie Buettner, USA Moonset, Spring/Summer 2008
Roberta Beary is a very keen observer of her surroundings, people in her life, and of herself, too. This is a wonderful collection of autobiographical senryu and haiku that leads the reader through the poet's life-matters and shares her view of the natural world.thunderthe roses shiftinto shadowSome of the more ironic poems may cause you to at least snort if not produce a full guffaw.family picnicthe new wife's rumpbigger than mineA haiku poet is always present in a poem, often passively, but sometimes as a participant. Roberta handles her language very deftly, allowing the reader to share even in matters personal to the writer: birth, death, love, divorce.The production of this book is also excellent -- published in Britain by John Barlow's Snapshot Press. I recommend this collection by a talented and unique poet.Paul MacNeilOcala, Florida
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