Clothes To Go Out In
Published on 15. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
56 pages
978-1-956285-90-1 (ISBN)
Description
Clothes To Go Out In is a collection of haibun, a hybrid form combining prose with haiku. These thirty-one vignettes weave together a tapestry of Chula's life-from clothes for all occasions to a collage of memories, experiences, and emotions that have shaped her identity. Both humorous and somber, the haibun in Clothes To Go Out In show us "how light and shadow are part of the same fabric, and the line between them is filled with wonder."
"These haibun, with their precise prose and startling leaps of haiku and tanka, are akin to colorful garments pinned together on a clothesline-often subtly linking to one another like renga verses. A wonder-full read!" -Penny Harter, author of Keeping Time: Haibun for the Journey
"In Clothes To Go Out In, Maggie Chula invites readers to accompany her in recollections of a life fully engaged-days of budding promise, of loss and poignancy, of mysterious dreams and random acts of kindness." -Rich Youmans, editor of contemporary haibun online
"Like traditional Japanese haibun, the haibun in Clothes To Go Out In do their quiet work through the clear language of distilled prose combined with their attendant haiku that shape each story with a further revelation-gently, or whimsically, or with a sharp sting. Chula is a storyteller, songstress, seer." -Joanna Rose, author of A Small Crowd of Strangers
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-956285-90-1 (9781956285901)
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Margaret Chula has been writing, teaching, and publishing poetry for over forty years. Her books include: Grinding my ink; Shadow Lines (linked haibun with Rich Youmans); Always Filling, Always Full; This Moment; The Smell of Rust; What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps (with quilt artist Cathy Erickson); Just This; Winter Deepens; Daffodils at Twilight; and One Leaf Detaches. Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Regional Arts and Culture Council have supported her work, as well as fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Playa at Summer Lake.
Maggie has been a featured speaker and workshop leader at conferences throughout the United States, as well as in Poland, Canada, Peru, and Japan. She has also served as president of the Tanka Society of America and as Poet Laureate for Friends of Chamber Music. Living in Kyoto for twelve years, she now makes her home in Portland, Oregon, where she hikes, swims, and creates flower arrangements for every room of the house.