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A Boy's Seasons: Haibun Memoirs

Cor van den Heuvel

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Description:This book is about a boy growing up in mid-20th Century America. Like many other boys of his generation the seasons for him were defined by the sports he played and loved. By the time he was in his teens, spring and summer had become baseball season, fall was football season, and winter was basketball season. Along with these major sports, other interests pursued by boys of this period are affectionately evoked in these pages. Some came earlier in this boy's life, such as marbles, hideouts, and skating. Some were enjoyed through all of his boyhood, like going to the beach and to amusement parks. His participation in and his feelings about our traditional holidays are carefully delineated and called to life in a long section called "A Boy's Holidays." More than just a memoir in the form of personal essays, this book is in a new form in English that has become very popular on websites and literary magazines devoted to haiku and its related genres: it's called haibun, a mixed form of prose and haiku. It's an ideal form for this red-white-and-blue book. We experience with the boy what he feels when he watches the flag go by in the Memorial Day parade, for we see the parade through his haiku-like awareness. Haiku moments involve the senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, or touching. You don't have to be a haiku poet to have such moments. Any of us can have one if we see or hear something so vividly and clearly that we have a feeling of unity or oneness, with it, and by extension with Nature itself. It may be something as simple as the sound of your dog lapping water from his bowl in the kitchen on a hot summer day or the sight of spring sunlight shining on some sheets blowing on the line. For the boy in this book it may be the coolness of his glove as he plays centerfield in the late afternoon shdaows of a ballpark or the lonely sound of his basketball bouncing on the floor of an empty gym on a rainy winter day.(from the Introduction)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Boy's Seasons: Haibun Memoirs. To get started finding A Boy's Seasons: Haibun Memoirs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book is about a boy growing up in mid-20th Century America. Like many other boys of his generation the seasons for him were defined by the sports he played and loved. By the time he was in his teens, spring and summer had become baseball season, fall was football season, and winter was basketball season. Along with these major sports, other interests pursued by boys of this period are affectionately evoked in these pages. Some came earlier in this boy's life, such as marbles, hideouts, and skating. Some were enjoyed through all of his boyhood, like going to the beach and to amusement parks. His participation in and his feelings about our traditional holidays are carefully delineated and called to life in a long section called "A Boy's Holidays." More than just a memoir in the form of personal essays, this book is in a new form in English that has become very popular on websites and literary magazines devoted to haiku and its related genres: it's called haibun, a mixed form of prose and haiku. It's an ideal form for this red-white-and-blue book. We experience with the boy what he feels when he watches the flag go by in the Memorial Day parade, for we see the parade through his haiku-like awareness. Haiku moments involve the senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, or touching. You don't have to be a haiku poet to have such moments. Any of us can have one if we see or hear something so vividly and clearly that we have a feeling of unity or oneness, with it, and by extension with Nature itself. It may be something as simple as the sound of your dog lapping water from his bowl in the kitchen on a hot summer day or the sight of spring sunlight shining on some sheets blowing on the line. For the boy in this book it may be the coolness of his glove as he plays centerfield in the late afternoon shdaows of a ballpark or the lonely sound of his basketball bouncing on the floor of an empty gym on a rainy winter day.(from the Introduction)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Boy's Seasons: Haibun Memoirs. To get started finding A Boy's Seasons: Haibun Memoirs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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