Journeys Far and Near: tanka roads

This content has been archived. It may no longer be relevant

Sanford Goldstein is the poet that all tanka writers aspire to be. Even in these poems from his eighth and ninth decades, he shows us all how tanka is done, with moving strings of poems about his wheelchair-bound sister, building a new house, friendships, religion, abstract conception, and ultimately love, where tanka first began. He surprises us with fresh diction, images, and syntax while sharing the honest accounts of his life for which he is known. Sanford Goldstein is a voice in tanka poetry that will never be equaled.” —Michael Dylan Welch, Tanka Society of America