The world's premier publisher of Asian forms in English, Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now in addition to Korean sijo and Japanese forms such as haiku and tanka - rendered exclusively in the 5-7-5 and 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structures. Issue 15 features the ghazals of Muhammad Sallahudin Bin Abdul Rahim, Will ...Full description
The world's premier publisher of Asian forms in English, Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now in addition to Korean sijo and Japanese forms such as haiku and tanka - rendered exclusively in the 5-7-5 and 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structures. Issue 15 features the ghazals of Muhammad Sallahudin Bin Abdul Rahim, William Dennis, Denver Butson, and Eric Torgersen; the sijo of Michael Wilson and Gareth Writer-Davies; the haiku and senryu of Priscilla Lignori, Danielle Woerner, Dante Gray, Jim Wilson, Mitchell Grabois, James Lignori, Neal Whitman, Michael T. Smith, Steve Denehan, and several others; detailed annotation on the composition of his 'All-Knowing' by poet Muhammad Sallahudin Bin Abdul Rahim; and 'Was "The End" the Beginning?', a consideration of The Doors' classic recording as ghazal by R. W. Watkins.