Potato Blossom Road

Potato Blossom Road is a book of seven haiku montages, immediate as a series of crisscrossing paths through a forest. Ranging from an uninhabited small island and Elizabeth Bishop's childhood house to the streets of Halifax and the films of Charlie Chaplin, these gatherings of haiku are alternately observant and intimate, succinct and expansive, subtle and full of vitality. They offer echo-chambers of images, events, and words. Brian Bartlett concludes his collection with a personal essay about reading and writing haiku, challenging some common assumptions about the form.