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Haibun de la Serna: 99 Haibun

Haibun de la Serna: 99 Haibun

by Paul E Nelson June 2022 Review by Pablo Baler Paul Nelson’s Haibun moves with the spirit of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s greguerías, one of the unclassifiable micro-genres Gómez invented in his quest to evade (literary) capture. Equally, but uniquely, evasive,...

Haibun de la Serna

Finishing the 83rd poem in a series of 99 haibun on Monday morning, Meredith had overheard me recording the poem and informed me I was “almost finished” with the series I have been working on for almost four years, Haibun de la Serna. My friend Amalio...

Haibun de la Serna

The book is now published! I was introduced to the writing of Ramon Gomez de la Serna by Pablo Baler, a friend of José Kozer, around 2009 or so and purchased a copy of his short poems Greguerías (Aphorisms), to which Baler compared my American Sentences. Fascinated by...

Angel Hack (Haibun de la Serna #4)

Angel Hack by Paul Nelson 3 Angel Hack Never forget that it was an angel that invented swords. Ramón Gomez de la Serna Never forget it is the oldest Bodhisattva carries one aflame in his right hand carve a slice off duality. Never forget a sword’s a scalpel can hack...