Structural Haiku: Forty Absolute Compositions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781972788356)

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Structural Haiku is a collection of forty formally constrained compositions organized through inversional variations of the traditional haiku structure. Divided into three movements-Ecological Systems, Cosmological Systems, and Abyssal Systems-the collection explores transformation through pressure, fracture, light, motion, residue, and perceptual change.

Each composition is governed by a triadic relational structure, such as Surface → Penetration → Stain or Threshold → Passage → Vanishing, through which meaning emerges from arrangement rather than narrative explanation. The poems move through terrestrial weather systems, geological instability, celestial phenomena, and concealed oceanic environments, constructing a poetics of transition, compression, and structural relation.

Employing root position and inversional syllabic architectures derived from traditional haiku, Structural Haiku reinterprets the form as a system of compositional transformation. The language is minimal yet materially precise, emphasizing environmental observation, instability, resonance, and atmospheric perception over personal confession or symbolic abstraction.

Blending poetic restraint with structural experimentation, Structural Haiku presents a sequence of absolute compositions in which relation itself becomes the primary expressive force.