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FootHills Publishing is proud to announce the publication of Helen Ruggieri's new book,

The Character For Woman

The Character For Woman is a collection of haibun (prose and haiku) and poetry inspired by her recent stay in Japan. Helen says of the work:

"I think you have to be born Japanese to write a true haibun,
but I don't see any problem with stealing ideas from other
cultures and bending them to my American way of thinking. I
kept a journal during a recent visit to Japan and the entries
were a way of thinking for me. I wanted to describe what I saw and experienced so that I could understand and remember. The haiku seemed to stick themselves in as capsulizations. The
haibun is an interesting form and as one who has long been
interested in poetry and journal keeping, it seemed a natural
extension as well as a way to blend east and west. Apologies
to Basho for looking at his moon."

Helen Ruggieri spent a semester as a visiting professor at Yokohama
College of Commerce. She lives in Olean, NY and teaches at the
University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, PA. She received a Sasakawa
fellowship from the Nippon Foundation for the study of Japanese culture.
Her poetry book, Glimmer Girls, is available from Mayapple Press.

The Character For Woman is a 60 page, hand-stitched perfect-bound book.
This is Helen's first FootHills Publishing release.

To order by mail send $10.00 per book plus $1.25 shipping and handling per address sent to.

(New York State Residents please add 80 cents sales tax per book)

FootHills Publishing
P.O. Box 68
Kanona, New York 14856

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© All Copyright, Helen Ruggieri.
All Rights Reserved. Printed By Permission.