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Buttonhook Press 2022 Chapbook Series
Poetry: All forms & styles
Haiku
Jianqing Zheng
Delta Notes
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About Delta Notes:
John Zheng writes with a keen eye for his latest collection, Delta Notes. There is a splendid sense of place in his rhythmic haiku that depict cotton pickers and their blues song, a “rural dinner,” a “juke joint,” a “military park,” a “jazz procession” and other subjects. This is a strong book that highlights time, movement and death. Good details and crisp imagery are abundant in Delta Notes, including visual, aural, tactile and olfactory imagery. Zheng is not afraid to take risks while recording rural life in this collection of well-crafted poems.
—Lenard D. Moore
Former President of The Haiku Society of America
Author of A Temple Looming and The Open Eye
This collection as if a genius of a place (Mississippi Delta) has deep wonderfully understated links to nature and often humorous intent in nature and the human life therein. A great collection and a great evocation of a place.
—Bruce Ross
Editor, Haiku Moment
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Made available online and/or printed in the USA as a novelty and commemorative document
celebrating the publication of Jianqing Zheng’s chapbook Delta Notes.
About the writer:
Jianqing Zheng is the author of A Way of Looking (Silverfish Review Press, 2021), Enforced Rustication in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Texas Review Press, 2019), Delta Sun (Red Moon Press 2018), and The Landscape of Mind (Slapering Hol Press, 2002). His edited books include Conversations with Dana Gioia, African American Haiku, The Other World of Richard Wright, and Sonia Sanchez’s Poetic Spirit through Haiku. He is a professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University where he edits Valley Voices: A Literary Review.
Cover Image: Plum Blossoms and Cranes (from The Colorful Realm of Living Beings series) by Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800). One in a set of thirty hanging scrolls. 55.9 x 31.3 inches. Between 1761 and 1765. Public domain.
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