ALT Many copies of (e)laments, a chapbook with a collage cover featuring classical art with pink and blue hues, spread out on a wooden tabletop

ALT “(e)laments is an experiment in the potential of the haibun, a Japanese form originated by 17th-century haiku master Bashō that utilizes the dynamism between two conversant parts––one verse, one prose. Baker and raum demonstrate what the haibun makes possible beyond its inherent juxtaposition: these poems’ halves illuminate another, in both form and content. As they interrogate the fluidity of body and identity (“i am a force which inundates & washes away”), often partaking in the kind of “self-erasure” T.A. Greathouse offers in their form, the “burning haibun” these poems are both whole and partial. (e)laments is a feat of simultaneity.” Jane Huffman, author of Public Abstract

ALT The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury selected by Jack Prelutsky illustrated by Meilo So