Denver, CO; Pahoa, HI (PRWEB) January 2, 2008 -- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published wind in the pages: haiku by brett brady, which is the author's most recent book to date. The 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback in the Poetry category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $25.95. wind in the pages is also available in its 5.5 x 8.5 Hardback w/ Jacket edition for $37.95. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/brettbrady was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.

About the Book (Excerpts & Info)

One won't find them sectioned-off into seasonal groupings nor partitioned into various elements-of-kind, such as metals or stone or wood or fire etc. However mysteriously presented, they are, nevertheless, small epiphanies that seem to come and go (apparently from nowhere.) Disturbingly soothing or soothingly disturbing, as if by magic, each "now-moment" will ostensibly materialize in a sudden burst of understanding... and just as mysteriously softly disappear... all in a sort of musical ebb-and-flow of "emotional" rhythms. To the point and simultaneously indirect; curiously multi-layered, like life, they invite ambiguity. They are haiku!

Read this book at a single sitting or (and) take a lifetime of picking roundabouts (indiscriminately-at-random) among the sundry bits-and-pieces leisurely resting at-large throughout (one page; one haiku) In each of these little "snippets-of-truth" there is a life-song hauntingly calling to be heard (again). Reconnect with the lost refrains of one's own 'circus-hypnotica' and 'trivia-mystique'. Witness anew the all-absorbing allure of something unexpectedly authentic. Breathe. Visit and revisit any of 371 surprisingly familiar and enigmatically commonplace experiences... always open to old discoveries and new explorations.

Each poem is a pebble plop't into the still pond of the reader's memory... embrace the event, as truly one's own, and just as suddenly one is swooped-up? refreshingly freed to follow, and more fully consider, wherever the ripples might carry -

- haiku notes (life-songs) -

Haiku slips beneath our immediate consciousness and plants a moment of fidelity and perpetual agreement? with an eternal integral truth about something quite ordinary, they offer and bequeath, through delicacy and nuance, an extraordinarily unanimous harmony with everything.

Haiku [and senryu are miniature "poems" that give expression in simple language to fleeting moments of heightened awareness. They suggest rather than narrate. They can appear fragile, but in essence are robust and resilient. They may seem elusive, but in this suggested hint-of-something-other remain doggedly attentive, quietly subtle and infinitely far-ranging.

It seems to me that haiku as a "poetic-composition" is better considered a visual art than a verbal one. Profound-in-essence; intuitive-in-truth, these are (or should be) benchmarks for every haiku: more literal than literary; sensuous and visceral as opposed to intellectual and academic?touch first, think later.

Haiku is a simple clear-eyed compositional meditative state, and a way of life which needs no distracting bejeweled finger pointing to the moon, in order to better see the moon (to borrow and twist a famous metaphor.) Inspiration is everywhere; always available; totally accessible! A little reach and there it is. If we learn how to look we may see? if how to see? we become visionary? if we are visionaries? well? so forth and so on -

that which is ... is enough ... focus wide ... be aware -

-brett brady

"Haiku show us what we knew all the time, but did not know we knew; it shows us that we are poets in so far as we live at all"

-r.h. blyth

Deftly constructed at 404 pages, wind in the pages: haiku is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Poetry category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, wind in the pages meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $25.95 and $37.95, respectively.

Additionally, wind in the pages can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press wholesale online bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/buybooks

ISBN: 9781432717506 Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback SRP: $25.95

ISBN: 9781432719814 Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Hardback w/ Jacket SRP: $37.95

For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/brettbrady

About the Author

an occasional ripple...

brett brady

author/poet/musician

[writer, singer, actor, athlete, lyricist, composer, illustrator, lecturer, teacher, coach, news reporter, bus driver, lighthouse sweeper, lobster fisherman, house builder, house parent, construction worker, songwriter, guitarist, flautist, filmmaker, playwright, printer, publisher, director, producer, professor, feasibility adviser, paper boy, garbage man, salesman, life-counselor, camp-counselor, college dean, university executive vice-president, farmhand, and quite likely a few more

"There are many wonderful haijin out there deftly presenting the case for haiku. I'm probably better suited as an observer; rather more like a student of the art than a lawyer for its defense [or prosecution."

"Anonymity [the closest we can get to invisibility facilitates a wish/need to breathe-in each now-moment as fully liberated as possible... there is a serene freedom in solitude. It affords an extraordinary luxury to absorb life? wherein, sometimes, I might jot down a few ordinary notes."

"To quote Ryokan [a favorite poet:

"the nightingale's song

brings me out of a dream:

the morning glows"

?then the very fine haijin ai li:

"quiet observation enables us to write truthfully"?

to which I can only add: "yes!""

Examples of his work appear in various publications, some of which are:

Across the Dark [pub: Celestial Arts; Tearing Mind/Silent Streams [Sea Litho Press; Dalhousie Gazette [Joseph Howe Award; archives; Haiku Journal [2nd annual International Yuki Teikei Haiku Contest; Sumitomo Bank Award; Cicada; Dragonfly; Poet; Lucidity; Quiet Storms [Michael Hoppe, Gaia Records; The Yearning [Michael Hoppe; pub: Chordially Yours Music; Bainbridge Records; The Dreamer [Michael Hoppe; pub: Chordially Yours Music; Bainbridge Records; Requiem [Michael Hoppe; pub: Chordially Yours Music; Today's Beautiful Gem [e-mag; Quotes That Leave A Mark [e-pub; Jiyu-Katari [New Haiku Contest (awarded); The Hawaii Education Association International Haiku Contest [for: "humorous" (senryu); "Hawaii word"; "season word"; Clouds Peak; tinywords; andrearazzauti.com; brettbrady.com; foggy autumn lake [B.Brady; A.Razzauti; M.Perez; pub:4evrsumr; two eagles soaring [B.Brady; M. Hoppe; pub:4evrsumr -

Brett continues to live on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he raised his daughter.

foggy autumn lake...

an occasional ripple

to break the silence

About Outskirts Press, Inc.

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