To the Hills and Hollows

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To the Hills and Hollows

Author: John J. Han
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788119228928
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2024
Price: $30

To the Hills and Hollows puts together the author’s 148 haibun and tanka prose, which are cousins to the Japanese poetic form of haiku. Most of them previously appeared in journals and anthologies, such as POMPA, Spare Mule, Failed Haiku, and Fireflies’ Light. In this volume, readers will encounter moments of awakening, travel narratives, social critique, accounts of bicultural experiences, and humorous musings on human nature.
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“To the Hills and Hollows covers a lot of ground—interesting places, familiar struggles, and age-old questions about life and death. These stories and poems provide an imaginative inducement for self-reflection and/or creative activity.”
—C. Clark Triplett, Ph.D., Emeritus Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Psychology, Missouri Baptist University

“This compilation does an excellent job of sampling many of the parts of life too often brushed off as mundane.”
—Andrea Hethcote

“Like a well-conducted orchestra, this book brings the reader peace.”
—Mia McIsaac

“Han’s poems are pensive, nostalgic, enlightening, and humorous.”
—Hannah Clark

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John J. Han
	John J. Han (Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is a scholar, poet, editor, and translator. He was born in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, in 1956 and came to America for graduate studies in English in 1988. He currently serves as Professor of English and Creative Writing and Chair of the Humanities Division at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis.