A Review of my own book

This amazing cover is all from the magical hands of @octocel

Hello there, book lovers!

I think one of the weirdest things a person would have to do is reviewing a piece of work produced by themselves. We are our worst critics. So here I am trying to tell you a few things about this book.

I gotta thank @adncabrera, @rjguerra and @octocel for the fact that the book exists. It is part of the first run of projects edited by the family. The editorial house is still a small project but there are enough writers around town and other places that will help them get a spot in digital and physical.

Now, about the book itself. I've been cultivating the art of Haiku for a long time. My first steps coming back to Hive where in the Mizu No Oto initiatives in the @bananafish community. These were contests in which we would get a photo and write a haiku from that prompt. It was a nice exercise and a way of getting into something I had discovered years ago in a workshop.

So the idea of writing haikus stayed with me. It isn't like I write one everyday. Sometimes I do, but it is more something that requires a lot of patience and discipline and being at ease. All those things need effort. Especially when you do a lot with your life and keep getting more and more to do. Since I had written a lot and also worked on some of them, when the idea of making a collection came by, there were already more than 30 written. Some of the haikus where of a single topic. Those are reserved for a second book. These first 27 are the ones that compose the first book.

This is how the magic starts

The title translates to "The World in Three Lines". It is of course a not-so-subtle reference to what writing a haiku is. It is the world put in three lines. A finite world. A world of 2 images. A world that beings in a word and ends in a period. A short world. You get the gist of it.

Also, since I'm really bad a drawing, @octocel came with the idea to create ink stains that flow through the haikus and tie them together. The ideas and poems are woven into the beautiful tapestry of ink. It is a modern way of making up the second part of the art which is usually a drawing that goes with the poem. Maybe my second book will have some drawings of my own. I do hope so.

Unfortunately, the book is only in Spanish for the moment, but nothing is stopping me from translating some of these haikus. Actually, some of them were originally written in English. In the collection, there some of the haikus that earned me the tittle of Awarded Haijin during the times when Mizu No Oto was running.

On the last note, I know haiku is not a genre for everybody, but I do hope that if you read my words, maybe you'll find something that interests you or makes you think. My goal is to make people take a pause to admire a scene painted with words.

And if it so happens you want to purchase the book. It is available in Amazon

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