Red Kimono, Yellow Barn

by David Hassler

Poetry. David Hassler was named Ohio Poet of the year in 2006 by the Ohio Poetry Day Association. He is the author of Sabishi: Poems from Japan and Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community and is co-editor of Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School (U. of Iowa, 2004) and A place to Grow: Voices and Images of Urban Gardeners. His writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Double Take/Points of Entry, Indiana Review and other journals. RED KIMONO, YELLOW BARN is his first collection of poetry. Stephen Kuusisto says "David Hassler's poems are as alive as good conversation: at once lyrical and 'storied.' He improvises luck and memory to create work of precise learning and condor." And Naomi Shihab Nye says, "David Hassler's poems create a calm, clean swept space in the mind and heart."

72 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2005

About the author

Director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. Ohio Poet of the Year, 2006; Ohioana Book Award, 2007.