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Author's
Books
If
I could trust the moon
Killaly Press 1977
Only
shadflies have come
Swamp Press 1979
Whose
smile the ripple warps Underwhich
Editions 1980
Cutout
moons
High/Coo Press 1980
Wind
in the keys
High/Coo Press 1981
Heart’s
garden
Guernica Editions 1983
Beautiful
chance
SWOP 1984
Bad
news
Mockersatz Zrox 1986
The
space between
(with Eric Amann and George Swede)
Wind Chimes Press 1986
Where
sky meets sky
Nietzsxhe’s Brolly 1987
Parallel
journey/ voyage parallele
(with Andre Duhaime)
Editions Asticou 1989
Dandelions
& dreams
Moonstone Press 1990
Glass
bell
Kings Road Press 1991
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Reader
Response Essay by Jill Embry
Gorman’s
haiku are very distinct from most other authors in that they are
more playful and actually more visual in how he writes them. This
visualization gives a clearer picture of what he is describing in
his haiku. He is also very distinct in writing about sound oriented
things which is great in placing you within the haiku and actually
hearing what he is describing. I like how Gorman isn’t so specific
in detail with his haiku as some authors. Leaving the haiku more
open can let you use your imagination to get your own image and
thoughts out of each of his haiku.
Some
Favorites by LeRoy Gorman
She dresses
Under her arm
The moon
This is a beautiful
haiku. While it doesn’t give much detail, it gives enough to
see this author watching his wife dress in the moonlight. She is
portrayed as so beautiful that the beauty of the moon doesn’t
compare to her.
sleepless
night
the mousetrap
snap!
This haiku gives
a vivid image of the author not being able to fall asleep. I like
this haiku because I also can relate to this when I can not sleep.
Even the littlest noises, such as a mousetrap, seem to keep me awake.
Spla
Rrribit
Sh
I like this
haiku because it is very vivid and playful is describing a frog
splashing in the pond. This haiku bring you within nature and I
can even visualize being this frog free hop around in the pond.
The playfulness of this haiku makes it truly unique.
O
fffffffffffffffffff rest
This haiku is
also very playful and visual. It gives this vision of a forest with
the moon rising above. I can actually feel myself in the forest
and it being so quite and peaceful. The only sound is of the wind
blowing the trees and the crickets chirping. The only light is that
of nature—the moonlight.
Out of fall
mist
A duck
F
E
A
T
H
E
R
I really like
this haiku, because it also has this visual playfulness that Gorman
is known for. Having the spelling of feather look like it is falling
gives this image of a fall day with the wind blowing and this lone
duck feather falling from the sky. It shows how that the ducks are
also leaving because winter is coming as well as the leaves on the
trees.
I hear her
sew
I hear the rain
I turn back a page
I picture the
author getting in tune so much with all the noises around him that
has to reread what he just read. I like this because it is something
that everyone can relate to. This happens a lot with me when I am
reading. I will try so hard to concentrate on what I am reading
but before I know it, I am getting distracted and can’t remember
what I just read.
Stone skip
. . . tone skips
I really like
this haiku because it gives this image of someone being in the woods
either by themselves or with someone skipping rocks. The haiku gives
this visual image of the stone actually skimming the water. Also
you can almost here it too. This splash each time it hits the water.
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This is also
a great visual haiku. I picture this beautiful winter morning with
the snow blanketing the ground and icicles hanging from the trees
and this beautiful sunrise. Gorman lets you visualize this icicle
melting drip by drip as the sun comes up.
stripping
wallpaper into the nite
my wife uncovers someone
else’s bedroom
I visualize
Gorman and his wife redoing their bedroom and while they are taking
off their wallpaper, they discover a whole new bedroom from whom
ever lived in the house before them. I like this haiku because it
is very surprising. It shows how you are so busy with the hustle
and bustle of family life of what’s going on now that sometimes
you don’t think about the past. If Gorman has lived in their
house as long as my parents have lived in mine (20 years), you tend
to forget that people lived in your house before you and finding
the old wallpaper reminds us of a life before of a family in the
same house.
the dumproad
pond
tadpoles exit
a birdhouse
In this haiku,
this is an awful dreary place where everyone goes to dump their
trash but in the middle this mess is a pond where tadpoles have
no choice but to live in this mess of garbage. It reminds me of
the children of poverty in the inner city that are born into this
ugly place and have no real option but to stay there. This is a
very sad view of the world. A place that no one wants to be and
people often forget about. People tend to not think about things
living where they are dumping their trash or even worse they just
don’t care. I like this haiku because it points out how we
need to think about the world around us and what we are doing to
the thing that live here,
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