With references to traditional Taoist and Chinese texts, as well as influences from the author's background in psychology and psychotherapy, this book by Lorie Dechar demonstrates how practitioners can work with the spirit of acupuncture points in modern practice. The concept of 'kigo', a Japanese word meaning 'season word', is used to understand the seasonal energy of the points and how the body relates to the universal flow. As an understanding of the spirit of the point brings focus and potency to a practitioner's needling, it also strengthens their ability to touch a patient's soul and spirit, besides the physical body. Tying in the macro cosmic connection of the body to the universe with a poetic force that amplifies and deepens the effect of acupuncture, Kigo is the perfect companion not only for acupuncturists, but also for chiropractors and psychotherapists, doctors and nurses, and other practitioners who use the points as part of their clinical work.

Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, L’Empire des signes, from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture.

Aimed chiefly at newcomers, this is a practical guide to understanding and composing haiku. If you’ve long been curious about haiku then this introduction will answer your questions about syllable counts, cutting-words (kireji), season-words (kigo) and so much more, including differences between approaches in the English and Japanese languages. Using verse from masters and contemporary poets, the Haiku How-To will take you through key concepts and important contextual issues. The guide also features concise explanations and examples of compositional techniques, and offers easy-to-use templates which will allow you to grow accustomed to the form, structure and goals of haiku. Writer Ashley Capes is a poet, novelist and teacher from Australia. He has been writing and publishing for the last twenty years and teaching during the last decade or so. He is also the author of seven poetry collections, three of which focus on haiku, senryu and haibun.

Florida-themed literary journal. Issue #2 features poems, photos, personal essays, photography, fine art and fiction and prose by Larry Baker, Chris Bodor, Carolee Ackerson Bertisch, Danuta Blaszak, Richard Burr, Susan Calfee, Pris Campbell, Alan Catlin, Susan Chappelear, Andrea Collins-Roe, Mary Deno-Yeck, Jim Draper, Sarah Crooks Flaire, Ann Leshy-Wood Fuller, Emma Gilger, Amy Lauer Goldin, Lynn Skapyak Harlin, George Holcomb, Inez Holger, Kyra Jade, Rick Jones, Leny Kaltenekker, LeeAnn Kendall, Beverly A. Bell Kessler, Michael Henry Lee, Loretta M. Leto, Antoinette Libro, Jason Logan, Dotty Loop, Johnny Masiulewicz, Tonn Pastore, Sam Pacetti, Becky Meyer Pourchot, Sharon Scholl, Kimmy Van Kooten, Rob Waldner, and Jim Wilson.

A new live literature experience by award-winning poet Nick Makoha. On a November evening in 1978 after eight years of civil war, Nick Makoha and his mother fled their homeland of Uganda. Many people were displaced, thrown into unfamiliar environments and forced to find their new home in the world. The Dark is Nick's own poetic retelling of his experience and that of others affected by it - a series of voices echoing from varying states of darkness. What unfolds is a story of those who find themselves exiled, with allegiances split between their birthplace and their new country.