the skyscape of always

A chapbook of collaborative writing featuring free verse, haiku, prose poems, and more by John Levy and Shloka Shankar.
 
“What a delight to be privy to this epistolary friendship between Shloka Shankar of Bangalore, India, and John Levy of Tucson, Arizona. Fresh and never pretentious, their words are buoyed by the spirit of discovery, the anything goes and yes, and attitude that is at the heart of all great collaborations. Writing in prose poems, haiku, haibun, and free verse, sometimes loosely completing each other’s forms (for example, my mind made a haibun of Levy’s free verse ‘seashore’ and the haiku that follows it, Shankar’s ‘mothering the ocean vagabond rain’), these two poets share the joy that ‘always/starts with a crumb/Hanseling and Greteling/into the unknown’ (Shankar). And their joy is infectious: I want to join in and respond with my own poems. Any reader/writer keen on innovative writing will find an exemplar in the skyscape of always.”
 
— Sabine Miller, Author of rock paper scissors ocean