- Raymond Roseliep
Raymond Roseliep (
August 11 ,1917 –December 6 ,1983 ) was a poet and contemporary master of the Englishhaiku andCatholic priest . He has been described as "theJohn Donne of Western haiku". [http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/catalog/brooksminis.html]Early life
Born on August 11, 1917, in
Farley, Iowa , to John Albert Roseliep (1874-1939) and Anna Elizabeth Anderson (1884-1967). In 1939 he graduated fromLoras College with aBachelor of Arts , in 1948 he received a Master of Arts in English fromCatholic University of America , and in 1954 he received aDoctor of Philosophy in English Literature fromNotre Dame University . He was ordained, June 12, 1943, atSt. Raphael’s Cathedral ,Dubuque, Iowa .Poetry
He won the
Haiku Society of America Harold G. Henderson award in 1977 and 1982. In 1981, Roseliep's Haiku Sequence, “The Morning Glory”, appeared on over two thousand buses inNew York City :
takes in
the world
from the heart out
funnels
our day
into itself
closes
on its own
inner lightBibliography
* "The Linen Bands" - 1961
* "The Small Rain" - 1963
* "Love Makes the Air Light" - 1965
* "Flute Over Walden" - 1976
* "Walk in Love" - 1976
* "Light Footsteps" - 1976
* "A Beautiful Woman Moves with Grace" - 1976
* "Sun in His Belly" - 1977
* "Step on the Rain" - 1977
* "Wake to the Bell" - 1977
* "A Day in the Life of Sobi-Shi" - 1978
* "Sailing Bones" - 1978
* "Sky in My Legs" - 1979
* "Firefly in My Eyecup" - 1979
* "The Still Point – Haiku of Mu" - 1979
* "Listen to Light" - 1980
* "Swish of a Cow Tail" - 1982
* "Rabbit in the Moon", Alembic Press (November 1983) ISBN 978-0-934184-16-8
* "The Earth We Swing On" - 1984References
* David Dayton, ed. (1980) "A Roseliep Retrospective: Poems & Other Words By & About Raymond Roseliep". Ithaca, New York: Alembic Press ISBN 978-0-934184-04-5
External links
* [http://www.terebess.hu/english/usa/roseliep.html Selected Roseliep haiku]
* [http://myweb.loras.edu/db000020/roseliep.htm An academic analysis of the poems of Roseliep]
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