like summer rain on dry stone
and fill the blank page
There are times when the comments in Amazon book reviews are quite astonishing. One reader complained, I think, in a review of Elizabeth O’Connor’s Whate Fall, that threr were pages with just a few lines at the top and nothing else.
I suppose that’s about value for money: pages filled with text so that the reader gets the word-count she is due. Still, it misses the point of literary skill and imagination.
I thought to myself - best avoid a book of haikus, then.
I had to write one…
and fill the blank page
© BH, 2024
There are times when the comments in Amazon book reviews are quite astonishing. One reader complained, I think, in a review of Elizabeth O’Connor’s Whate Fall, that threr were pages with just a few lines at the top and nothing else.
I suppose that’s about value for money: pages filled with text so that the reader gets the word-count she is due. Still, it misses the point of literary skill and imagination.
I thought to myself - best avoid a book of haikus, then.
I had to write one…
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