The Ticket Taker's Shadow

The Ticket Taker's Shadow

Haiku, American

Poetry, American--20th century

Cor Van den Heuvel’s The Ticket-Taker’s Shadow was intended as a complete compilation of his Chant Press publications, comprising 11 chapbooks and 2 broadsides. Chant Press is his personal imprint, begun in 1959 and extant, though dormant, today. The content of these several volumes was presented in its entirety in this volume. van den Heuvel subtitles this volume "Haiku” but a later but abandoned conception of the book was to include additional selections of haibun and renga. You will find these deleted pieces in the appendix to this compilation. Though the layout was completed, The Ticket-Taker’s Shadow was never published. This, then, constitutes the first publication of what we may consider Van den Heuvel’s selected haiku.

- Jim Kacian, editor

Van den Heuvel, Cor

Jim Kacian Archival Library

unpublished, except in this manuscript version presented by The Haiku Foundation

2014

All rights reserved. This book is republished here with the kind permission of the author.

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