Renowned poet and translator Sanford Goldstein describes Robert Wilson’s Jack Fruit Moon as “... the creation of a remarkable world unlike anything seen in tanka and haiku all these centuries. The book is filled with unusual images that make us feel we are experiencing a surrealist world. ... What seems to have happened in this amazing book filled with images never seen on sea or land is that the rationalism of the world is turned upside down or is sent whirling as on an endless merry-go-round.” Ikuyo Yoshimura, poet, author, speaker, and Associate Professor of English at Asahi University, says, “Robert Wilson has written an epoch-making work of vivid tanka-haiku...” Amelia Fielden, Australian poet and translator, says, “As exotic as its title, Jack Fruit Moon is an intriguing document, a lyrical stream of consciousness in the shape of alternating haiku and tanka style poems. It is rich with fantastical language and mysterious images. ... An... More > excitingly different poetic world to read and absorb.”< Less
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By Sasa Vazic
Mar 4, 2009
Even when he writes about "normal" things we all normally write about, he does it in his own, "twisted", way, with unexpected turns. He asks the reader to stop and deeply think about what he/she reads, sees and feels: at midnight, a dead mouse lighting lanterns the morning sky hovers over me, weighted down with the gray eyes of vendors a small mound of dirt, the stillness of words caught between a siren's echo Living in the Philippines, his everyday encounters with and empathy for, first of all, the poor who he has labeled "the invisible people," lead to many touching poems. He wants to warn the world, to call its attention: he fishes inside of a still born moon mumbling words he can't remember still water . . . the stench of a newborn moon she sleeps through noon on a cement slab scented with peanuts and stale memories I cannot recommend this book as the one you can learn from. We can only be grateful to Robert for letting us into his... More > world. And his world is not limited to Earth only. The universe is boundless, we all know that. His poems flow, fly, collide with each other through space and time. If dare enter Robert's boundless world, be warned: it won't be easy. You will have to take a firm running start and fly off to capture them.< Less
