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Ellery Littleton's erotic haiku will take you to places further and deeper
down and in than even undone buttons. However, because Littleton takes his
time to see and feel, every line you'll read in this finely made, loving and
fun book, is indeed, like a button being undone.
Here's what I say: Why not have such pleasure last? We are, generally speaking,
so bereft of pleasure in our culture, missing the delights of eros and a deep
sexual connection to our bodies-these haiku are a way to replenish your body
memory and ignite the best of our human passion for one another.
Hummingbird has been nominated for an award from The Haiku Foundation —
“Touchstone Distinguished Book Award”
— by Jim Kacian, the proprietor of Red Moon Press, the largest
publisher of haiku and other Japanese poetic forms in North America.
Ellery Littleton lives in Victoria, BC, Canada. Way out on the west coast
(or “left coast” as it is sometimes called), on the edge of the
Pacific, on the edge of the rainforest, on the edge of the new awareness —
where a synthesis of North American and Asian influences takes place. Maybe
that's why so much of Ellery's writing is infused with Asian influences.
Trained as a teacher, majoring in English and History, Ellery taught high school
in British Columbia for ten years, and History at the University of Victoria for two years.
In 1975, he began writing full-time as a profession, and in that year became the
first staff writer for Victoria's popular Monday Magazine. In a long
career as a professional writer, Ellery has moved from writing for advertising
agencies, magazines and newspapers, to working in the communication
departments of government ministries and crown corporations, to freelancing
all over the west coast for a host of clients, large and small. He is also the author of
Riverwalk and Old Rocks, New Streams.
Ellery Littleton runs a writing program called
the spirit journal.
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