MORE READERS' BOOK COMMENTS

Haiku and Tanka Harvest, published last December 23, 2011 is available at Amazon and its publisher's site: https://www.createspace.com/3737478

MORE READERS’ COMMENTS

“I received my copy of Haiku and Tanka Harvest today in the mail. I am enjoying all your work very much. A special thanks for including “For Darrell” in this book. I appreciate very much you including this poem in memory of my wife, Alice. We have both lost our life mates in the normal course of living. Poetry such as yours eases the pain. It reminds us that we will all be together again. On the other side.”

- Darrell Byrd, poet member of the Southern California Haiku Study Group

“Haiku and Tanka Harvest is simply wonderful! It is beautiful, inside and out. The cover is extraordinarily striking. I've been trying to make the first reading last, to savor each poem the first time through, but it's very hard to do that, because as soon as I read one poem I can't wait to get to the next. So, I'll read every one, and absorb and savor them more slowly with subsequent readings. I'm enjoying your prose very much, too. Your work has heart; reading it is such a joy. Susumu's and Marjorie's introductions are marvelous, warm and enlightening. What a significant and satisfying literary gift you have created!"

- Ferris Gilli, Associate Editor, The Heron's Nest

“Victor is probably more of a settler than a traveller. His job as a librarian must have given him intellectual detachment and the power of keen observation. His humility and honesty have opened a shortest route to truths. They also seem to have made him able to accept “the unknowable” and “the undoable” calmly. With this detachment and calmness he enjoys what life can offer him. All this, without being armed with Zen, Oriental mysticism, or cumbersome Western haiku theory and rules.

year end
thinking of what ifs
and what might have beens

Luckily for him, Victor is a natural for haiku. However, that is only half the story. The other half tells us that he makes tremendous efforts to be better, listens attentively, observes like a scientist and opens his heart to what is there for everybody to see.

In answer to my question he says, “Haiku enable me to see the world as it is, warts and all, and embrace any and all happenings both in nature itself and human nature, with me remaining non-judgmental yet involved. It requires discipline yet makes me aware of macro and micro happenings around me.”

And whatever happens around him, Victor’s heart remains with his late wife.

dining alone
the pipe-in music plays
our love song"

- Susumu Takiguchi, Chairman of The World Haiku Club and editor of its World Haiku Review. Excerpts from Susumu’s Introduction to Haiku in the book Haiku and Tanka Harvest.

BACK COVER of Haiku and Tanka Harvest

Haiku and Tanka Havest is available from Amazon and its publisher's site:
https://www.createspace.com/3737478

ABOUT THE AUTHOR, Victor P. Gendrano
Victor is a member of the Haiku Society of America, World Haiku Club, Tanka Society of America and the Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society. This is his second book. His first one, Rustle of bamboo leaves, selected haiku and other poems,was published in 2005. It is highly discounted in the publisher’s site:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/rustle-of-bamboo-leaves/246155

WHAT THEY SAY:
“Victor is a natural for haiku. But his tanka is something special. Tanka form seems to be a most suitable one for his sensibility, self-expression and sentiment. Tanka would be a better form for most of the haiku poets who have not grasped the essence of haiku like he had. In short, he is good at haiku as well as at tanka.”
- Susumu Takiguchi, Chairman, The World Haiku Club and Editor,
World Haiku Review

“Gendrano is a multitalented poet who is not afraid of expressing himself in various forms; he is not limited to nor defined only as a tanka or haiku poet; this freedom of definition gives his poetry a richness and depth. This collection of haiku and tanka is heartfelt and honest. Victor P. Gendrano’s voice is sincere,rich and authentic. It is a voice that needs to be heard.”
- Marjorie Buettner, poet, book reviewer, and author of
Seeing it now, a haiku and tanka book.

Victor P. Gendrano's second book, Haiku and Tanka Harvest, is a journey into the heart and soul of the poet. His poetic works are honest, sincere and, above all, will leave permanent footprints in the reader's heart. From loneliness, heartache, joy, and happiness, this book weaves a tapestry of his life's winding road. Haiku and Tanka Harvest is a must addition to any poet's library.
- Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing: a journal of women's tanka

COMMENTS ON NEW BOOK

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Victor is a member of the Haiku Society of America, World Haiku Club, Tanka Society of America and the Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society. This is his second book. His first one, Rustle of bamboo leaves, selected haiku and other poems,was published in 2005. It is highly discounted in the publisher’s site {copy and paste URL):
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/rustle-of-bamboo-leaves/246155

WHAT THEY SAY:
“Victor is a natural for haiku. But his tanka is something special. Tanka form seems to be a most suitable one for his sensibility, self-expression and sentiment. Tanka would be a better form for most of the haiku poets who have not grasped the essence of haiku like he had. In short, he is good at haiku as well as at tanka.”
- Susumu Takiguchi, Chairman, The World Haiku Club and Editor, World Haiku Review

“Gendrano is a multitalented poet who is not afraid of expressing himself in various forms; he is not limited to nor defined only as a tanka or haiku poet; this freedom of definition gives his poetry a richness and depth. This collection of haiku and tanka is heartfelt and honest. Victor P. Gendrano’s voice is sincere,rich and authentic. It is a voice that needs to be heard.”
- Marjorie Buettner, poet, book reviewer, and author of Seeing it now, a haiku
and tanka book.


Victor P. Gendrano's second book, Haiku and Tanka Harvest, is a journey into the heart and soul of the poet. His poetic works are honest, sincere and, above all, will leave permanent footprints in the reader's heart. From loneliness, heartache, joy, and happiness, this book weaves a tapestry of his life's winding road. Haiku and Tanka Harvest is a must addition to any poet's library.
- Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing: a journal of women's tanka

NEW BOOK AVAILABLE NOW

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Just in time for the holiday gift-giving for you or your friends. If the link does not work, copy and paste the URL to your browser. Merry Christmas to all!

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

A NEW INFO:
The Epilogue of my book features Memorial and Death poems dedicated to poets Betty Kaplan, Janice Bostok, and Svetlana Marisova who passed away one by one while I was busy compiling the book. Dare I say I have also written my own?

Here is the cover of my forthcoming second book, HAIKU AND TANKA HARVEST, a slight variation of my blog's name. It has 126 pages, 6x9" size using Times Roman 12 with ISBN-13:978-1468017854. My first book, Rustle of bamboo leaves, selected haiku and other poems was published in November 2005.

Tha Haiku chapter is introduced by Susumu Takiguchi, Chairman of World Haiku Club and editor of its World Haiku Review and the Tanka chapter by haiku and tanka poet and eminent book reviewer Marjorie Buettner. The cover is designed by my artist friend, poet and long-time haiga collaborator Ashley Wood of England.

The book is a selection of my over 200 haiku and tanka poems published in various online and print journals as well as book anthologies written during the past six years, 2006-2011. There is a lenghty section of Senryu and Vanguard haiku. Included also are multilingual haiku and tanka in English, Spanish and Tagalog. Scattered all over the volume are samples of my haiga or picture poems from my sizable collection dating from 2000. More news forthcoming.

Wife's death

brisk breeze blasts
the last remaining leaf
this blustery day
his wife of many years
has gone to rest
                    For Darrell

Modern English Tanka
Vol. 2, NO. 2. Winter 2007

Thanksgiving prayer

For three years in a row now, I have been posting this Thanksgiving prayer. Here it is again and I hope you don't get bored by it. This Thanksgiving Day I will be hosting our family's traditional meal and and all members of my family and probably a few close friends will be here to celebrate with me.

THANKSGIVING PRAYER

Thank you
my Lord and God
for gift of life and health
remembering our lost loved ones
once more.

Heed not
our weaknesses,
teach us how to forgive
and live in harmony with all
others.

So that
once more this world
of hate will be again
a place of love and peacefulness,
Amen.

© November 2004-2011