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Winter Light

"These are the sounds of a man blessing life both for what it has provided and for letting him assist."
--Cid Corman

Published in 1987 by Innerer Klang Press of Boston, Winter Light contains poems written in the early 1980s when Kirtland Snyder lived in the Back Bay of Boston. All of these poems were written in the Japanese style--imagistic, syllabic, laconic--and many were composed on walks along the Charles or through the urban gardens of the Back Bay.

Snyder met and befriended the expatriate American poet, editor, and translator Cid Corman in the early 1980s when Cid and his Japanese wife Shizumi briefly owned the restaurant, Kai Seki, on Newbury Street. Cid introduced Kirt to the work of the great Japanese haiku poets, and it was in the spirit of this work that Kirt wrote these poems.

The book itself reflects the Japanese sumi-e aesthetic in its use of handmade papers and simplicity of presentation. It was printed letterpress from handset metal type in a limited edition.