Hot Pink Moon: A Crown of Haibun
by Katie Dozier and Timothy Green
An interlocking chain of haibun composed over a single month, Hot Pink Moon shakes and spins through cycles of love and longing. Permanently pressing the boundaries of a form that combines haiku with prose, Katie Dozier and Timothy Green explore the phases of being together across time and space.
Reviews of Hot Pink Moon
Hot Pink Moon, an outstanding haibun collection by poets Katie Dozier and Timothy Green, is subtitled A Crown of Haibun for a good reason. One that is explained in the Authors’ Note at the start of this slim but impactful volume. Pick up your own copy, dive straight into the haibun, and see if you can solve the puzzle. The effort is worth it. These well-crafted linked haibun, written in alternating points of view, unfold like a diary that is sometimes steamy, sometimes quotidian, but never less than astonishing.
—Roberta Beary, author of Carousel, co-author of Haibun: A Writer’s Guide
Hot Pink Moon is an absolute treat. It epitomizes the level of creative innovation taking place in contemporary haibun, and I love the idea of a crown of them! The book happened to find me on a difficult day—IV inserted, and lots of holes and prodding. It cheered me up, as I’m sure it will for everyone who reads it.
—Lew Watts, author of Eira, co-author of Haibun: A Writer’s Guide
American Fractal
by Timothy Green
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Each portion forming a reduced-size copy of the whole, a fractal is forever fragmented, both chaotic and ordered, endlessly complex. Timothy Green’s American Fractal sees this pattern emerge from the fabric of modern culture, as it navigates the personal, the political, and the metaphysical, in a lyric dreamscape in which an eerie chaos lurks just behind the facade of order–where “what looks like / a river…could be a log,” “as if accident were / the fundamental attribute of life.” In separate poems, one man sells ad space on his forehead, while another examines the multitudes of his own voice on an audio cassette recorder. Each life is but another section of the fractal, the past and the future two mirrors that face each other to perpetuate the illusion of infinites. At turns evocative and sweetly ironic, Green straddles the line between accessibility and complexity, exploring “how the wind whispers our secrets,” how “that little tremor” of understanding “touches your sleeve, lets go.”
Reviews of American Fractal
“In American Fractal, Timothy Green braids together an alert and nimble intelligence, a liveliness of phrasing, a polished sense of form, and a whimsical surrealism—braids them and brings them to bear on our contemporary world. The result, poem after poem that sidles up to the truth and smacks it on the lips or, playfully or in earnest, upside the head.”
—Gregory Orr, author of Concerning the Book that Is the Body…
“The poems in Timothy Green’s American Fractal find love within love; landscape within landscape; the ‘I’ and ‘you’ nestled within the bigger ‘I’ and ‘you.’ Unpredictable, uproarious, and true to the wonder of the moment, Green’s poems are chockfull of magical imagery that blurs the waking and dream life.”
—Denise Duhamel, author of Kinky