Haikuish
And Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry
http://www.scottmacleod.com/HaikuishPoetryBook.html
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Preface
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-ish are 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) ~ where you might be inspired to write
your own haiku-ish, for example. The word "other" here
also refers to the poetry in this volume not touched on by the themes in the
title. "Other" refers too to this poetry being distinct.
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, caring and nurturing 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 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-ish
are 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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