Clothes To Go Out In

<p><strong><em>Clothes To Go Out In</em></strong> is a collection of haibun a hybrid form combining prose with haiku. These thirty-one vignettes weave together a tapestry of Chula's life-from clothes for all occasions to a collage of memories experiences and emotions that have shaped her identity. Both humorous and somber the haibun in<em> Clothes To Go Out In</em> show us how light and shadow are part of the same fabric and the line between them is filled with wonder.</p><p></p><p></p><p>These haibun with their precise prose and startling leaps of haiku and tanka are akin to colorful garments pinned together on a clothesline-often subtly linking to one another like renga verses. A wonder-full read! <strong>-Penny Harter author of <em>Keeping Time: Haibun for the Journey</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify>In <em>Clothes To Go Out In</em> Maggie Chula invites readers to accompany her in recollections of a life fully engaged-days of budding promise of loss and poignancy of mysterious dreams and random acts of kindness. <strong>-Rich Youmans editor of <em>contemporary haibun online</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Like traditional Japanese haibun the haibun in <em>Clothes To Go Out</em> <em>In </em>do their quiet work through the clear language of distilled prose combined with their attendant haiku that shape each story with a further revelation-gently or whimsically or with a sharp sting. Chula is a storyteller songstress seer. <strong>-Joanna Rose author of<em> A Small Crowd of Strangers</em></strong></p>