The Shortest Stories

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A midwife writes birth haiku on each beginning In this quietly powerful collection, midwife Janelle Alier captures the fleeting, transformative moments of birth through the eleganc e of haiku. Written in reflection after attending more than one hundred births, these seventeen-syllable poems offer a powerful record of beginnings. Available in standard paperback edition or a limited-edition letterpress version. ---------- This book is funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of The Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina. Show more