"A Sanctuary Green" is a collection of 595 haiku written by Ed Bremson between 2007 and 2009. The author acknowledges learning from and being influenced by the work of such classical masters as Bash, Buson, and Issa, as well as by that of many contemporary poets. The haiku in this book range from the humorous to the thought-provoking to the serious and to the touching. Many of the poems may seem to be personal expressions, but are likely to have universal appeal. Above all it is clear that Ed Bremson brings a new voice to the haiku world, a voice that should be listened to. Reading A...

Ed Bremson spends a lot of time in shopping malls. Many days of the year, when the weather is not particularly nice, he goes there and walks for an hour. While he is walking he keeps all his senses open for ideas he can use to write poems or haiku. In fact, one of his college professors once called Ed "the Walt Whitman of the mall" because of all the mall poetry he wrote for class. Poet in the Mall is the result of all that time spent walking, observing, sweating, freezing, and writing. Dedicated to Federico Garcia Lorca, and somewhat reminiscent of his Poet in New York, it contains various...