Rick Black: Beauty and Violence in Israel
Rick Black is the author of Peace and War: A Collection of Haiku from Israel and shares his haiku on the website, www.israelhaiku.com. A poet, book artist, and publisher (turtlelightpress.com), he has won numerous haiku awards and recently completed The Amichai Windows, an artist book of Yehuda Amichai poems. All poems in his essay without a byline are his own. An early version of his essay for this collection appeared in Blithe Spirit (2019, Vol. 29, #2), a British haiku journal.
