blurbs & reviews

K Ramesh’s new collection of haiku and haibun, Spinning Pinwheels, feels like a quiet memoir. He gathers fragments of lived experience and weaves them into verse, each poem carrying traces of memory laced with karumi (lightness). Drawing on observations gathered over a lifetime, he shapes a book that, alongside his fresh creations, distills haiku from his three earlier works, bringing them together into a single volume that subtly unfolds like shinrin-yoku—a walk into nature. And as Ramesh walks, he takes us along. We pause where he pauses, notice what he notices, and share in his wonder as the ordinary becomes sublime.

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This collection, composed of haiku, senryu, and haibun, continually plants and replants the poet’s lone self in new iterations.

What draws me to Hirschfield’s poems is their vulnerability. Each verse is autobiographical, laced with the fragile beauty of silence. Just like his father's fedora, they carry an aura of mystery and sophistication, concealing as much as they reveal. These poems linger even after the
words fade.

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