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a place is a book of short poems. each poem is its own place.

Jack Galmitz's new collection of haiku has an appropriate title, A New Hand. All the works in it show the author's delightful wonder at sensing the world with a new hand called haiku. His spiritual urge sometimes calls for terms of transcendence, words like "god" and "Guan Yin," but it also seeks to feel joy that comes only from our everyday life. Some words here record painful emotions, but they are also not without a sense of discovery by virtue of the brevity of the poetic form. (Contributed by Keiji Minato)

In the tradition of poets Robert Lax and Frank Samperi, Jack Galmitz utilizes minimal phrasing to maximum affect.

Views is a perspectivist study of contemporary haiku and minimalist poetry.

An invited-anthology of fresh poetry loam bringing together a group of poets better known for short-form compositions and poems within the haiku genre. "Shovel" means to present novel poetic explorations not generally appearing in book form, and so to make visible to readers of these poets curious facets of literary interest and new aspects of mind.

Pieces in a Museum are poems created out of the elements in words, concrete poems generally.

minimalist poems of the everyday and its relationship to the uncanny

Sea glass is a collection of minimalist poems.

Through ambiguity and dissociation, the unbridgeable gap between word and world is revealed and the reader finds themselves in the in-between that is their sacred and special space.

Of All The Things is a book for those who have come to realize that the journey, its landscapes, and the forms that populate it are none other than the passengers themselves. The tangible, the tasted, the smelled, the perceived, the heard, the conceived are suddenly, rightly understood to be the intimacy of the mind experiencing itself. The poems in this volume are of the same nature as meditation: like the Tibetan Buddhist practice of tonglen, where the objective of the meditator is to put thoughts of self aside and offer all that is beneficial to sentient beings. Of All The Things is an open passage for everyone. The book welcomes you to step aboard and take the journey of your life.