Road Poems and Sky Haiku

The book is divided into three sections. The first is Sky Haiku a collection of pieces in which over decades Ed Manual has attempted to write in a tradition going back many centuries in Japan. It is of the short three-line poem which might as poet Ezra Pound said present an image. Ed has drawn inspiration from the early haiku masters. The second section is Road Poems a group of free verse' (without regular rhyme meter etc.) poems penned while driving through various states. The final section Other Poems completes the work with a mix of free verse pieces culled from different stages in a writing career up to the present. The work is complemented by a selection of artworks by artist Tom Mahady who joins Ed here in their second collaboration; he also enhanced the booklet Spring Haiku with eight collage/ink drawings. Torn also produced the cover art for the present book.