Of Pen & Ink & Paper Scraps Francie M. Matthews Baumann's experimentation with the surreal

Baumann's experimentation with the surreal avoids gimmick and easy metaphor

Documents the origins

from naming practices to eagle catching

As most of the interventions are evidence-based and backed up by case studies

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Of Pen & Ink & Paper Scraps Francie M. Matthews Baumann's experimentation with the surrealThe first of this new collection's three parts ranges very widely, from poems of childhood his own, his children's, and his grandchild's to poems of keen social and political awareness, and on to pieces about his neighbors, about growing more firmly and deeply into a personal place. The collection's second part, devoted completely to the poet's favorite of all the great haiku poets of Japan, Issa, "Issa: A Suite of Haiku," is made up of 72 freshly