Accidental Gardens
$29.75
- Paperback
202 pages
- Release Date
12 November 2025
Summary
There is a centuries-old Japanese form of writing called the haibun: meditative narratives ending with a haiku that acts as a summary or extension of the ideas and moods in the prose. In Accidental Gardens, Rob Carney both honors this form and gives it an update for the 21st century.
These 48 essays—including sixteen collected for the first time in this new and revised edition—are all short and end, haibun-style, with poems or encapsulating images. These essays are impressed …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923388055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923388053 |
| Author: | Rob Carney |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 202 |
| Release Date: | 12 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 155mm x 230mm |
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Critics Review
‘This collection of flash essays and poems is a journey through the absurdity, tragedy and black comedy of late-stage capitalist and consumerist America, weaving between despair and hope like sixty million spawning salmon.’ - Nick Hunt, Where the Wild Winds Are
Rob Carney
Rob Carney is the author of nine books of poems, most recently The Book of Drought (Texas Review Press), and The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Award. In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in Cave Wall, The American Journal of Poetry, and many others, as well as the Norton anthology Flash Fiction Forward (2006).
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