{"product_id":"nelson-paul-haibun-de-la-serna-99-haibun","title":"Nelson, Paul: Haibun de la Serna: Haibun 99","description":"\u003cp\u003eGoldfish Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 18, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Poet\/interviewer Paul E Nelson founded The Cascadia Poetics LAB \u0026amp; the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, CPL has produced hundreds of poetry events \u0026amp; 750 hours of interview programming with legendary poets \u0026amp; whole systems activists. Paul's books include \u003ci\u003eA Time Before Slaughter\/Pig War: \u0026amp; Other Songs of Cascadia\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prophets\u003c\/i\u003e (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e (2015, 2021) \u003ci\u003eA Time Before Slaughter\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) \u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eOrganic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and several anthologies which he co-edited. Literary Executor for Sam Hamill, Paul is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Seattle in the Cedar River Watershed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNelson comes to poetry not simply as a maker-of-poems, but as a way of life, a way of being. Furthering the tradition of sequential poetry established by Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, Nelson's first major book, \u003ci\u003eA Time Before Slaughter, \u003c\/i\u003einterweaves local history with a personal mythology to create a cosmos. His is a poetics that reveals process rather than conclusion. His study and practice have revolutionized his approach to poetics. Eschewing the poem as a highly polished objet d'art made of words, his poetry tracks the movement of conscientiousness, or what Duncan de- scribed as \"the dance of the intellect.\" Borrowing from the Medieval Japanese form \u003ci\u003ehai- bun, \u003c\/i\u003ea combination of prose and haiku, he adds a Latin American \u003ci\u003eneo-barroco \u003c\/i\u003elayering of language to create something uniquely his own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40071852326935,"sku":"9781950276165","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ScreenShot2022-05-05at1.21.06PM.png?v=1651782370","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/nelson-paul-haibun-de-la-serna-99-haibun","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}