The Haibun Lens
As opposed to haiku, a brief pit stop in the now, the Japanese literary form of haibun shuttles the reader from A to B, teaching us to see the journey as unified and indivisible.
Leath Tonino
Leath Tonino is the author of two essay collections, both published by Trinity University Press, The Animal One Thousand Miles Long (2018) and The West Will Swallow You (2019).
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