evening news
the soothing weight
of the quilt
Honorable Mention, 2006 Robert Spiess Haiku Award Competition
Peggy Heinrich
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
晚間新聞
棉被
的撫慰重量
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
晚间新闻
棉被
的抚慰重量
Bio Sketch
Peggy
Heinrich's haiku have appeared in almost every haiku journal both
nationally and internationally and in many anthologies. Awards include
Top Prize in the Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest in
both 2009 and 2010. Peeling an Orange, a collection of her haiku with photographs by John Bolivar, was published in 2009 by Modern English Tanka Press. Forward Moving Shadows, a collection of her tanka, with photographs by John Bolivar, was published in 2012.
Below is excerpted from judges' comments, which can be accessed at http://www.modernhaiku.org/spiesscontest/spiessawards2006.html
ReplyDeleteHere, “evening news” evokes the diverse aspects of life that weigh one down by the end of a day. We hear the discourse repeated nightly by the newscasters who bring the world into our living rooms and bedrooms. The line break at “weight” nicely links the heaviness of the news with that of the quilt. But the warmth of the quilt makes it all a little easier to bear, calls us to sleep, and we awaken fresh to start a new news day.
Technically speaking, the strength of Peggy's haiku is that the thematic and emotional shift ("soothing weight"/of the "quilt") in Ls 2&3 effectively shows the impact of L1 ("evening news"), mainly the psychological one.
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