Friday, October 30, 2020

Mark Laliberte

folio : Contemporary Haiku

 

 

 

klaxons howl skyward
relentless endless summer
life’s red flags, half-mast

 

 

tension of a tritone:
Death playing the violin,
horsehair on catgut

 

 

A silence when our
world begins to bend towards
its quiet end, Zzz

 

 

Formally, I adhere to a strict syllabic 5-7-5 patterning across 3 lines; I enjoy the constraint. In terms of thematics, I deviate from the haiku tradition in that I prefer to move away from the gentleness often associated with the form, approaching instead from a nihilistic perspective. If nature is present, the impressions in the work will strain against it.

 

 

Mark Laliberte is a writer-artist-designer with an MFA from University of Guelph. He has exhibited extensively in galleries across Canada and internationally, curates the online experimental comics site http://4panel.ca, and edits the hybrid art/lit mag CAROUSEL. Laliberte has had pageworks, poems and other print experiments appear in publications big and small, including Ink Brick, POETRY, prairie fire, subTerrain and Vallum. Publications include BRICKBRICKBRICK (Book*Hug, 2010) and asemanticasymmetry (Anstruther Press, 2016). Laliberte is a member of the collaborative writing entity, MA|DE, whose latest chapbook ZZOO is out in October with Collusion Books. More info: marklaliberte.com + ma-de.ca