the way home: haiku of Jamie Wimberly
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“the way home is a quiet, lyrical collection shaped by longing, reflection, and the pull of return. Across the poems, recurring images of way, sky, and moon create a gentle sense of drift and direction, while flashes of light, colour, sound, and wild flowers give the book a delicate natural richness. The haiku move beautifully between inner feeling and the surrounding landscape, where grief, memory, and hope seem to travel the same road.”
— Iliyana Stoyanova (editor, Blithe Spirit)
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“In the same way that poetry sometimes compares the weather outside and the weather within, Jamie Wimberly presents us with travels that are simultaneously in the world and in the heart and mind. His haiku have a clarity that encourages readers to join the journey from their current locations.”
— John Stevenson (editor, The Heron’s Nest)
“Jamie Wimberly is a master of pointing to the missing subject (as Richard Gilbert calls it in The Disjunctive Dragonfly)—in the midst of mud puddles and fluttering drapes, suggestions of a poet’s life stories, which echo the reader’s own, are memorialized through one just-right image after another. In reflections on travel, familial love, the heartache of separation, and aging and death, the way home showcases Wimberly’s talent for tonal nuance, his painterly eye, and a compassion for all those journeying to find their way back.”
— James Knippen. Professor of Poetry, Utica College
snow flurries passing by a poster of the missing sun glints on a warming day I call shotgun bone china plum blossoms landing just so fence post — recognizing the lee side of me
ISBN: 978-1-958408-96-4
Pages: 82
Size: 4.25″ x 6.5″
Binding: perfect softbound
Year Published: 2026
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