not a memory, exactly, - Couverture souple

Ai Li

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 198091639X ISBN 13 : 9781980916390

Editeur : Independently published, 2018

Synopsis

not a memory, exactly, is the fourteenth edition of the cherita : a storybook journal.

The cherita genre was created by ai li on the 22 June 1997. It consists of three stanzas of 1 - 2 - 3 lines and it tells a story.

This volume showcases 77 fine cherita from poets who hail from UK, USA, Singapore, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Croatia, Trinidad and Tobago, Sri Lanka, Poland, Lithuania, Italy and India. Twelve cherita terbalik or inverted cherita of the 3-2-1, 2-1-3 and 2-3-1 formats, are featured within this edition, with one written by three poets, for your enjoyment and inspiration.

Featured Poets as they appear in this edition :-

Peter Jastermsky/ Tamara K. Walker/ Tiffany Shaw-Diaz/ Patricia Prime/ Hansha Teki/ ai li/ Maryalicia Post/ Kath Abela Wilson/ Malintha Perera/ Goran Gatalica/ Arturas Silanskas/ pamela a. babusci/ Johnny Baranski/ Joyce Futa/ Joanna Ashwell/ Tia Haynes/ Pat Geyer/ Christina Sng/ Michael H Lester/ Samantha Sirimanne Hyde/ Pat Davis/ Carol Purington/ Geoffrey Winch/ Paweł Markiewicz/ Gillena Cox/ John Hawkhead/ aimeé loreé/ Pravat Kumar Padhy/ Angela Giordano/ Jessica Malone Latham/ Paul Bryce/ Jean Holland/ Debbie Strange/ Andrew Riutta/ Akane/ Erika Wilk/ Jackie Chou/ Larry Kimmel/ David A. Martin/ Keitha Keyes/ Martina Robles Gallegos/ Tim Gardiner/ John Hawkhead/

The cherita terbalik [pronounced chair-rita tur-bar-lake] can be written with stanzas of [3-2-1], [2-1-3], [1–3–2],] 2–3–1] and [3–1–2] and with up to 3 partners. I hope you will all try this either solo or with your writing friends and submit your best efforts to me.

The book has been edited to be experienced two ways. It can be read as a storybook and as an anthology of individual poems.

The entire book also has one poem to a page to allow the author's words to breathe.

Here is an example from the book :-

Grandma’s house

a basket heavy
with red-ripe tomatoes

I don't tell
about the wolf’s shadow
that crossed my path

Carol Purington

The cherita invokes the storyteller that lives in all of us.

ai li is the editor and publisher of the cherita : your storybook journal. She is an internationally published Haiku, Tanka and Cherita poet and the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line.

N.B. Kindle versions contain a wonderland of colour images within, but please be aware that Print versions of the cherita do not have any images within.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 198091639X
• ISBN 13: 9781980916390
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 171
• Éditeur: Ai Li
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg