Hello everyone!
I am very excited to share that After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran & Alphonse de Lamartine will be out tomorrow.
After the Fires of Day is my favorite project so far and I look forward to launching it. I know you will enjoy reading this unique book of haiku!
Let's start the week with the interview that I did on Kaye Lynne Booth's blog. Click on the banner below to read it.
After the Fires of Day: Review by Kaye Lynne Booth
After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran and Alphonse de Lamartine is both a tribute of admiration to two wonderful poets and a collection of Haiku by Cendrine Marrouat, the expressions of her own unique voice and style of Haiku, in which their inspirations can be seen.
I was familiar with Kahlil Gibran's work, but Alphonse de Lamartine was new to me. I am thankful to Cendrine Marrouat for the introduction to this poet. The poetic words of Marrouat's beautiful Haiku bring me back to when I was introduced to the Haiku poetry, in the fourth grade. At that time, I felt that the sheer simplicity of the Haiku was lovely, although my fourth-grade mind didn't yet understand that it was the ability of the words to capture and conjure a moment in nature so exquisitely that sent so much awe flowing through me.
I've included my favorite poem from this collection below. I think this Haiku speaks to me because my son, Michael, was born and died in September and since his death, September has always been a hard month for me to face. Marrouat's Haiku allows me to look at the month of September with more positivity. The vivid imagery reminds me of what it is like to wait in anticipation of cooler days and fall colors.
Valley sits in gold, reflections in water welcome September
While reading the Haiku poetry of Cendrine Marrouat, I couldn't help but smile as her words summoned vivid images in my mind, which is exactly what a quality haiku should do. I give After the Fires of Day: Haiku Inspired by Kahlil Gibran and Alphonse de Lamartine five quills.
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