Fire Pearls

by M. Kei (Editor)

Fire Pearls, Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart, features addresses all aspects of the human heart. Fifty poets run the gamut of emotion from laughter to grief, anger, jealousy, joy, delight and more. All the poems are short five line stanzas: tanka, kyoka, cinquains, and free verse, yet the poets of Fire Pearls can pack an entire lifetime into a single intense poem. Arranged by season, including a 'fifth season, ' Fire Pearls is sure to delight romantics and curmudgeons alike.

Genres: Poetry

164 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2006

About the author

M. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay and apprenticed aboard a skipjack, a sail-powered oyster dredge. He now serves with a fully rigged ship. His publications include over 1200 tanka poems in six languages and ten countries. He is the editor-in-chief of the anthology series, Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, and the author of Slow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, a log he kept in verse form of several extended trips aboard a skipjack. He has edited and authored several other books of poetry and a major journal, Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka. He is also the author of the award-winning Pirates of the Narrow Seas series of gay naval adventure novels.