tulip
surprising
snow
South by Southeast, 10:2, 2003
Ed Baker
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
鬱金香
驚喜
雪花
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
鬱金香
惊喜
雪花
Bio Sketch
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1941, Ed Baker was an artist and poet who resided in Washington, D.C. He had published over 2500 watercolors, 75,000 poems, and 500 3-d pieces, and he died after surgery on 28 March 2016. Full Moon and Stone Girl E-pic are two of his recent titles. For more information about his work, see Joseph Hutchison's and John Mingay's reviews.
In Ed's minimalist haiku of 3 one-word lines and 6 syllables, the unusual yet visually and emotionally interesting juxtaposition of tulip and snow offers three different readings:
ReplyDeletetulip/surprising snow,
or tulip surprising/snow,
or tulip surprising snow.
For further discussion on this fine minimalist haiku, see Nicholas Klacsanzky's detailed analysis, "Ed Baker’s Surprise," which can be accessed at https://haikucommentary.wordpress.com/2016/11/23/ed-bakers-surprise/