THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT
Curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios
ISBN-13: 978-951-9198-78-1
Price: $16.95
Release Date: 2010
Distributors: Meritage Press, Amazon and Lulu (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/chained-hay%28na%29ku/12049346)
The hay(na)ku's swift popularity would not have been possible without internet-based communication. With the internet's capacity for engendering collaborations, it was inevitable that a collaborative hay(na)ku project such as THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU would arise. It, of course, was fitting that THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU began with an invitation from a blog. On June 24, 2007, an invitation was posted on http://chainedhaynaku.wordpress.com/ for poets to participate in hay(na)ku collaborations. Nearly a hundred poets and artists from around the world responded, and this anthology is one result, along with friendships and much fun!
The following is an excerpt from the collaborative poem by THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU’s curators—Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego and Eileen R. Tabios—posted on the invitational blog as an example of hay(na)ku collaboration:
Hear
where nothing
is said. Here
where
everything worth
hearing is offered.
En
arche en
ho logos, kai
ho …
the bush
suddenly ablaze, sky
flaming
in your
eyes and mine,
blood
melting to
ink in our
veins,
then leaking
to shape gold
letters
on correspondence
masquerading as books.
Here
where Nothing
is said, hear
where
Nothing is
said, watch smoke rise
off
the tongue,
words like snakes.
The
tongue is
a golden page.
—from “Four Skin Confessions”
THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU is also beautifully designed by Melissa Nolledo.
More information about the hay(na)ku poetic form is available at The Hay(na)ku Poetry Blog (http://haynakupoetry.blogspot.com )
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