{"product_id":"love-is-a-tanka-paperback","title":"Love Is a Tanka - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeanne Lupton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2020 Jeanne Lupton writes \"in the midst\/ of writing tanka\/ in a café\/ I already want\/ this happiness again.\" It's a grand example of Lupton's tanka, illustrating a particular syncopation that is perfect for telling her stories, revealing intimacies, launching memories. Lupton takes ownership of the tanka form to entertain with wit, careful observation, and tenderness. She reveals a life lived over time and with challenges. The tanka come fast and amass a litany of human foibles, stumbles, generous connections, and difficulties. Lupton's \u003cem\u003eLove is Tanka\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles a fierce human spirit, that's sustained by love, as she learns to endure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Sally Elesby, poet and painter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of these bring instant tears, others a touch of the poignant soul. All are suffused with the divine light of the ordinary. What is most hidden and deepest is the most obvious, only to see it you must look with the eye that these tanka sharpen. I'm reminded, too, of the Buddhist saying that the most enlightened being appears to be most ordinary. These poems are a treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Clive Matson, author of \u003cem\u003eHello, Paradise. Paradise, Goodbye\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove is a Tanka\u003c\/em\u003e.... As the title shows, this tanka collection is full of love. Love for people, love for nature, love for tanka, love for writing... After reading this book, I'm sure you'll feel good. Jeanne Lupton makes you happy by presenting her happy tanka in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ea rainy noon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI run across the square\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eto the café\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eto eat tomato bisque\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003efeeling like a poet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Kozue Uzawa, editor of \u003cem\u003eGUSTS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanne Lupton's condensed language of tanka takes the reader on an unforgettable journey into what it is to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Chantal Guillemin, author of \u003cem\u003eTruchas \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Mi Tierra Adentro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanne Lupton, a poet since she learned to read, moved to the San Francisco East Bay from Northern Virginia in 2002 and has been active since then in the poetry community here and in the tanka community worldwide through tanka journals. Her collection, \u003cem\u003ebut then you danced\u003c\/em\u003e, which appeared in 2006, and several booklets published since then are included here. This collection represents the first 25 years of her tanka. Jeanne hosted the Second Saturday Poetry and Prose Reading Series at Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda, California, for 13 years. She has given several short solo performances at the Marsh Theater in Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeanne leads a memoir writing group for seniors on Zoom, is a member of Fresh Ink Poetry Collective and Bay Area Poets Coalition, and writes with Clive Matson's Too Busy to Write group every Tuesday night. She lives at Strawberry Creek Lodge in Berkeley with 150 other elders and her cat BB.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTanka are two lines longer than haiku and invite the expression of feeling. Traditionally a love poem, tanka is over 1400 years old. Haiku originated when the first three lines of tanka broke off to become their own poetic form. Young people in Japan today text tanka to each other on their cell phones. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52728616812851,"sku":"9781421836980","price":32.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eTFrN3pqZGoxZTNGa3VmVEFnQkdkUT09.webp?v=1763787637","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/love-is-a-tanka-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}