ÒRilke advises the aspiring poet to Ôlove the questions.Õ And what is a sea wind but a river of questions blowing out of the unknown? Jacob D. SalzerÕs Sea Wind begins by showing us how the mother of all questionsÑwho am I?Ñresounds in the bottomless well of a barred owlÕs eye. That deep resonance continues throughout these enigmatic, dreamlike haiku, each raising more questions than answers. Hidden roots and talking trees, one-sided stories and a twisted plot, a prisonerÕs letter and the afterlife of ants. An error message and a lost key. Juxtaposed with equally evocative images from the natural worldÑwolf and raven, moss and stone, snow and crow and fireÑthese poems carry not only the scent of pine and the taste of blackberry, but also a sense of the deepest mysteries that entwine our brief human lives with the life of the Earth. Nearly one-third of the haiku refer to an unnamed ÔsheÕÑher secrets, her silence, her whispers, her shadow. Is she a woman? Many women? Or is she the Earth? There may be no single answer to this or to any of the imponderable questions adrift on this Sea Wind. The reader is invited to wander, wonder, and ponder: before the thought / of you and I / the endless sea.Ó
~ Jenny Ward Angyal, author of The Wind Harp, Earthbound, and co-author of Walking Widdershins: An Ode to Joy, Sea Wind, Haiku, Jacob D. Salzer, Haiku Poetry, Nature, Poetry, Jacob Salzer| 9781257821969 | 96PAGES