tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post4374694501575244458..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: Steve Sanfield: a TributeIssa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-43797139629300409462015-04-14T11:43:43.565-04:002015-04-14T11:43:43.565-04:00Embarrassed to say I'm not familiar with Steve...Embarrassed to say I'm not familiar with Steve or his work. Did you ever publish him in Lilliput Review? Thanks for posting this Don. Bartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-51532314937670364552015-04-06T16:15:56.224-04:002015-04-06T16:15:56.224-04:00Sad to hear of Steve's passing. He was a fine ...Sad to hear of Steve's passing. He was a fine poet, and a neighbour of Gary Snyder's in the Sierra foothills. It was a pleasure to exchange publications with Steve over many years.<br /><br />In a reading I arranged for Steve to give once (in the San Francisco area), he did something with his haiku that I particularly liked. He read each poem twice, but the second time, for each poem, he read only <i>part</i> of the poem, yet of course we could all hear what he didn't repeat. It was very effective.<br /><br />A footnote to the term "hoops": While Steve (and John Brandi) did indeed use that term for many years early on, my understanding from Steve is that, in the last 15 or 20 years, he no longer felt the need to call his short poems hoops rather than haiku. What he said to me was that haiku had become widely enough known as a literary form, and there was less need to differentiate what he was writing from all the pseudo-haiku out there that paid little attention to literary traditions.<br /><br />Rest in peace, dear Steve. Your poetry touched me, and continues to touch me.Michael Dylan Welchhttp://www.graceguts.comnoreply@blogger.com