I recently had the pleasure of reading a review copy of Vanished Roads, a newly released haiku collection by Thomas L. Vaultonburg from Zombie Logic Press.
Having already encountered many of the haiku individually, I was fascinated by the interpretive depth and thematic unity that could emerge from rereading them as a body of work.
In Vanished Roads, loss and grief are less like endings and more like thresholds to discovery. In the poems' world, boundaries between the ordinary and the numinous, the human and the more-than-human world are never cleanly drawn.
This porosity is evident in many of the author's most memorable haiku turns, which tend to shift the reader's perspective in ways that feel dreamlike, yet natural and inevitable.
after she paintseven the brush water
holds a sky
Tré's cover art gently brings the collection's themes into focus, sharing the poems' delight in multiple ways of seeing.
Reading Vanished Roads has left me with the sense that there is still more to discover and say "yes" to, both in haiku and in the world around us.
-Magedah Shabo
Read Sean Wright's review of Vanished roads at Zombie Logic Review
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