NOCTURNE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS

Praise for NOCTURNE: NEW & SELECTED POEMS

American Book Award winner Anna Odessa Linzer on Mike Dillon’s Departures: Poetry and Prose on the Removal of Bainbridge Island’s Japanese Americans After Pearl Harbor, “This collection finds me at a loss for words to describe the perfect beauty, the searing pain held in his words.”

Reviewer Mathew Paul, in Sphinx (U.K.), on The Return: Mike Dillon “seems to be seeking a silence just out of reach, bearing the influence of haiku, tanka, Chinese poetry and the likes of Snyder and Rexroth. At his sparest, his poetry takes on a rare limpidity worthy of those influences.”

Of Mike Dillon’s work in haiku, Jim Kacian, co-editor of Haiku in English: The First HundredYears, wrote that his voice “possesses a quiet authority that makes his best work seem inevitable. He evokes the feel of a small-town sensibility without ever sacrificing a more worldly perspective.”

About MIKE DILLON

Mike Dillon lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on the Salish Sea northwest of Seattle, from where he writes poetry, essays and occasional book reviews. The former publisher of a group of community newspapers in Seattle, he is the author of six books of poetry, two poetry chapbooks, and three books of haiku. His essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Kyoto Journal, Rain Taxi, The Galway Review, Northwest Asian Weekly, and other venues in this country and abroad. Among his journalism awards is a first place from the Society of Professional Journalists for a three-part series on sex abuse. He is also editor of Notes from the Garden: Creating a Pacific Northwest Sanctuary, by Madeleine Wilde. Several of his haiku were included in Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years, from W.W. Norton (2013).