Whispers In The Dark The poems in this collection come from a writer with an unique background and wildly improbable perspective. His life-long experience as a professional gorilla actor (Trading Places, American Tourister Gorilla), mime/butoh artist and founder of America's oldest Living Statue company, has given him both the time and inspiration to view and write about the world from a rare vantage point. His worldly travels and bizarre adventures have provided him with a trove of lush material, which has found its way into many of these poems. Although most of the poems in this collection...

This award-winning collection was first published in 1987. The revised edition contains ten new haiku and senryu, which McLeod has selected for this current printing. In the everyday rush to get things done we often miss the poignant small things and meaningful moments that lie just beyond our everyday consciousness. Small Town/Big City is about those moments. Whether it is a prom tux flapping with excitement in a pickup window or a homeless man screaming at the mannequin they are uniquely captured by Donald McLeod's keenly perceptive eye and his command of the American haiku form. He grew up...