Preface
A delight it is to publish this book of poetry, of haiku-ish - Haiku~ish and Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry - in the context of modernity and the information age.
Haiku-ishare informed by the haiku poetry form, are 17 syllables-plus, are often three lines, where nature is a focus, and can be inwardly implosive or enlightening (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/03/spiral-stars-wanting-to-explore-writing.html). What’s also unique about this volume of poetry is the addition of a blog link with every poem, where in these blog posts you will also find photographs.
The word “other” in the title of this book of haiku-ish builds upon the poetry I’ve included in my recently published actual-virtual anthropological “Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin” book (Academic Press at World University and School 2016 ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook); visit the beginnings of a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs in Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from https://twitter.com/HarbinBook) ~ to be inspired to write your own haiku-ish, for example. The word "other" here also refers to the poetry in this volume not in the following themes. "Other" refers too to this poetry being different.
The word “loving” in the title refers to a focus on positive generative caring in this book of poetry. In dedicating this, my second book, to my mother again, loving here also refers to my mother’s remarkable loving and caring qualities, and the warmth and radiance thereof. My last poem in this book is about this.
“Hippies” refer to the folks who find freedom in living in a kind of alternative way of life, as well as their giving rise to counterculture, which here emerges from “the freedom-oriented, social movements that emerged in the 1960s and early 1970s,” further giving rise to new forms of culture (Naked Harbin Ethnography 2016 : 24).
“Harbin” here refers to Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, a clothing-optional hippy-to-the-hot-springs’ New Age alternative retreat center with natural geo-thermally heated waters, as well as to the emergence of a realistic virtual Harbin online for visiting Harbin as well in new ways.
“Poetry” here refers to a “special intensity [which] is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm,” to “a quality of beauty and intensity of emotion regarded as characteristic of poems,” and to “something regarded as comparable to poetry in its beauty” (Apple Dictionary).
I hope you, the reader, will find a generative freedom of bodymind, of neurophysiology, in your reading of these haiku-ish.
Scott MacLeod
Solstice 2017
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Back of the book stuff:
Haiku~ish
and Other, Loving, Hippy, Harbin Poetry
A delight it is to publish this book of poetry, of haiku-ish.
Haiku-ishare informed by the haiku poetry form, are 17 syllables-plus, are often three lines, where nature is a focus, and can be inwardly implosive or enlightening (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/03/spiral-stars-wanting-to-explore-writing.html). What’s also unique about this volume of poetry is the addition of a blog link with every poem, where in these blog posts, you will also find photographs.
Scott MacLeod's research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's taught the open free "Information Technology and the Network Society" course on Harvard’s virtual island and in Google group video Hangouts for many years, where he also teaches anthropology and sociology. He’s the founder, president and CEO of World University and School (like Wikipedia with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare – http://worlduniversityandschool.org).
Academic Press at World University and School
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