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In the first part of this century, few visitors to Indonesia ventured much further than Java, and those who wrote books about their experiences often judged that island by their own Western standards. Violet Clifton, who first visited Indonesia in 1912, was different. She treated Java simply as a transit stop on her travels to more remote islands and left her Western prejudices at home. Traveling by horseback and residing at government rest houses, Violet Clifton and her husband made leisurely progress through scarcely visited places such as Sumatra, Nias, Mentawai, Celebes and Lombok. This book (first published as Islands of Queen Wilhelmina in 1927) is a refreshing look off-the-beaten-track at early twentieth-century Indonesia where tourists were still virtually unknown.
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Alex Belknap
reviewed Islands of Indonesia on July 16, 2014
Islands of Indonesia
The word "contemporary" attracted me. As much as I enjoy the works of the four pillars of haiku, I'm more of a fan of what came after the 1920's. What also caught my eye was the price! This book was listed on Amazon for over $900. I was puzzled. It would not be going too far to say I was flummoxed and gobsmacked. Some time later, I came a cross a copy for 1/50th of that price and ordered a copy.
Lucien Stryk has been involved with haiku for decades so I felt good about ordering with no preview. While I'm not disappointed, there are some micro poems in there I'm not sure qualify as haiku and many others that stretch my already liberal and forgiving tolerance of a haiku definition to the breaking point. A few were more like complete sentences broken into 3 lines. Still others had cheater titles to help them along-
Garden Gloves
on the garden gate
left here with me
the shape of her hands
-Bob Arnold
See? That could have been written so as to omit the need for a title, the "fourth line." All in all, the Acorn book was was worth $20 and has secured a place in my haiku library. Please don't buy a 900 dollar copy though. The price is hard to fathom. Perhaps its because of its rarity in the US. I think it was released for a UK audience.
There were a number of haiku I much enjoyed.
ancient headstones
names and numbers
worn to mutters
William Hart
a small jar
has bent
the goldfish
Hamish Turnbull
the sun is a beehive
rocked in the forest bear's paws
drunk. the final honeyed ray
Arseny Konetsky
in the lampshade
the soft detonation
of moths
John Capp
with their voices
cicadas create the shape
of a big tree
Tsunehiko Hoshino
A welcome read for haiku fans and those who enjoy tiny poems inspired by haiku, but its not hundreds of dollars good. Don't be a sucker.
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