Hey, check it out! My new poetry collection #TravelByHaiku is available at local bookstores around the country, including:
- A Novel Idea on Passyunk Philadelphia (South)
- Bindlestiff Books Philadelphia, PA (West)
- Brickbat Books Philadelphia, PA
- The Head & The Hand Philadelphia (Fishtown)
- Small World Books Venice Beach, CA
- Tomorrow Today Los Angeles, CA
- Topos Bookstore New York City (Ridgewood)
More info and places to grab a copy on my website here: https://www.marshalljameskavanaugh.com/travel-by-haiku-volumes-6-10.html
Featuring collaborative haiku by 6 different authors on three separate road trips, the story follows our hero Marshall Deerfield who ties it all together as a young poet growing wilder. Those familiar with the American Pops of #JackKerouac, the blues-infused ku of Sonia Sanchez, or the travel fiction of Basho will especially enjoy these wild rambles and where they take the reader.
In a review in Tears in the Fence, John Brantingham, poet laureate of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, had this to say about the new book: “What struck me immediately is how this feels like the volume that might have been written by a side character in #JackKerouac’s novel Dharma Bums. There is a joy here for nature that is infectious. With the haibun, these haiku create a narrative of young people going into the new American West to find what remains to take pleasure in. Much of what we have read in older works that have the same kind of approach is gone. Times have changed and we have lost that world. Marshall Deerfield is trying to find what is there now and how to lose himself in these places.”
The Life and Works of Marshall James Kavanaugh 