{"product_id":"landmarks-a-haibun-collection-9780994813800","title":"Landmarks: A Haibun Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/strong\u003e is a collection of 64 of Ray Rasmussen's haibun that have appeared in a number of journals including \u003cem\u003eModern Haiku, Frogpond, Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, A Hundred Gourds, Bottle Rockets and Blithe Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThemes include later-in-life romance, memories of childhood, wilderness adventures, retirement and aging, and philosophical musings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRay is haibun editor of Haibun Today and technical editor of \u003cem\u003eContemporary Haibun Online\u003c\/em\u003e. His haibun have been carried in numerous anthologies including \u003cem\u003eContemporary Haibun Online, The Red Moon Anthology, Journeys 2014\u003c\/em\u003e and the two anthologies produced by the British Haiku Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFerris Gilli, Associate Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Heron's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e haiku journal, comments: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"LANDMARKS: A Haibun Collection by Ray Rasmussen is not only beautiful to look at and has a pleasing typeset, it is one of the best books in a haiku-related genre that I've ever read. Rasmussen evokes a wide range of emotions with these haibun. I've read a number of them so many times they have become old friends. They've also shown me how I can sharpen my own haibun.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeffrey Woodward, Editor, \u003cem\u003eHaibun Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e comments: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe haibun of Ray Rasmussen revel in close observation and personal experience. They take for their inspiration the everyday person, place or thing and these subjects commonly are ones with which their author shares an intimate relationship. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLike the inuksuk that graces the cover of \u003cem\u003eLandmarks\u003c\/em\u003e, Rasmussen's haibun seem constructed of whatever stones lie near at hand, whatever materials he can appropriate from his immediate environs and, in doing so, they fashion a chronicle of his life's journey, part wilderness travel, part interior odyssey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLike the inuksuk, these haibun are markers in the otherwise normal landscapes of all of our lives. They are testimonials that \"someone was here\" before and offer assurances, to the reader, that he is on the right path.\u003c\/p\u003e - Jeffrey Woodward, Author of \u003cem\u003eEvening in the Plaza\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAnother Garden\u003c\/em\u003e, and Editor of \u003cem\u003eModern Haibun and Tanka Prose\u003c\/em\u003e and of \u003cem\u003eHaibun Today\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ray Rasmussen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Haibun Bookshelf Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.27d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780994813800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRay Rasmussen lives at times in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and at times in Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe has been composing haibun since the late 90s and his work appears regularly in a variety of international journals. Many of his haibun have been included poetry anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCurrently, he serves as haibun editor for the online journal \u003cem\u003eHaibun Today\u003c\/em\u003e. In the past he's served as the haibun editor of \u003cem\u003eA Hundred Gourds, The World Haiku Review, Simply Haiku and Notes from the Gean.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen he's not busy writing and editing, he spends a good deal of his time hiking, canoeing and photographing wilderness places, including Alberta's Willmore Wilderness Park and Jasper National Park, Utah's Canyonlands National Park and Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a previous life, Ray was a professor and chair of the Department of Strategic Management and Organization, the TransAlta Professor of Environmental Policy, and the Director of the Environmental Research and Studies Centre at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRay provides online coaching for writers in haibun composition. 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