I think about this passage in Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance virtually every day:
“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like instead to be concerned with the question “What is best?”
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Poems included in Elder’s newest collection Boon, leave no doubt in the reader’s mind that the concise style, the predominant feature of haiku poetry, has subtle power that appeals to our heart and imagination. Another remarkable characteristic of these haiku is that they reveal the poet’s energies of intuition and allusion.