The Bat's Love Song: American Haiku by Heather Ann Schmidt was published by Crisis Chronicles Press on 1 December 2009.
Selections:
March 20
Three golden finches
sing in the white birch trees:
pieces of sunshine.
June 25
Rain on my roof:
tears of a goddess leaving the
world heavier now.
The Bat's Love Song: American Haiku is
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The Bat's Love Song: American Haiku consists of 43 poems on 16 pages. Injket printed on lavender paper and saddle staple bound using pale gray cover stock. Cover art also by Heather Ann Schmidt. Approximately 110 copies in print.
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Click here to see a clip of Heather Ann Schmidt reading her poetry, including selections from The Bat's Love Song, during the Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza in Lakewood, Ohio.
Poet's biography (as of 2009, from the chapbook):
"Heather Ann Schmidt is an adjunct professor at Oakland Community College in Michigan. She edits tinfoildresses poetry journal. Her poems can be found in various online and print journals. Her other books include Channeling Isadora Duncan (Gold Wake Press, 2009), The Owl & the Muse: Collected Tanka (recycled karma press, 2009) and a full collection of poems forthcoming from Village Green Press. She received her MFA from National University."
Crisis Chronicles subsequently published (or will publish) three more collections of Heather's poems: Transient Angels (2012), Red Hibiscus (2013) and Field Notes (forthcoming, 2014).
