From the book's Introduction, by Clare MacQueen: If you adore a good story-one that's well written and well told, one that entertains and inspires, the kind that dazzles and makes you weep and laugh out loud at the same time-then you're in for a treat with New Shoes. This wondrous collection by poet and master story-teller Dan Gilmore offers 53 noteworthy stories to savor: specifically, haibun stories, a hybrid form of flash writing which blends prose poems with haiku or senryu. "Like a Zen slap on the reader's back," Gilmore says, the haiku "enriches, deepens, and expands" the prose. The...