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    Knit One, Haiku Too
    Knit One, Haiku Too
    Knit One, Haiku Too
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    Knit One, Haiku Too

    By Maria Fire

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    Knitting and haiku, together at last!

    The soft clacking of needles, the repetitive looping of yarn…you’ve fallen under the spell of knitting. For you, and for knitters the world over, this ancient craft is more than just a hobby, it’s a soothing practice with a rhythm and mystery that echoes its sister in poetry, the haiku.

    Written for the passionate knitter, Knit One, Haiku Too is a tribute to all there is to love about knitting: the creativity, the meditation, and the contemplation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateJul 28, 2006
    ISBN9781440517723
    Knit One, Haiku Too
    Author

    Maria Fire

    An Adams Media author.

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    • 3/5
      A small book of little stories and vignettes about knitting and the part it plays in the writer's life. The stories are nice little reminders to sit still and enjoy knitting (or whatever craft practice you're into). The haiku? ... Like I said, the stories are nice little reminders ... Three lines and a the right syllable count doesn't make something an haiku.(Read July 2008)

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    Knit One, Haiku Too - Maria Fire

    KNIT ONE,

    HAIKU TOO

    Maria Fire

    KnitOneHaikuToo_1a

    Adams Media

    Avon, Massachusetts

    Copyright©2006 by Maria Fire.

    All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher; exceptions are made for brief excerpts used in published reviews

    Published by Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

    57 Littlefield Street

    Avon, MA 02322

    www.adamsmedia.com

    ISBN 10: 1-59337-571-9

    ISBN 13: 978-1-59337-571-3

    Printed in Canada.

    J I H G F E D C B A

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Fire, Maria.

    Knit one, haiku too ⁄ by Maria Fire.

    p. cm.

    ISBN 1-59337-571-9

    1. Knitting. 2. Haiku. 3. Fire, Maria. I. Title.

    TT820.F52 2006

    746.43'2--dc22

                                                                         2006014707

    This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional advice. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.

    —From a Declaration of Principles jointly adopted by a Committee of the

    American Bar Association and a Committee of Publishers and Associations

    This book is available at quantity discounts for bulk purchases.

    For information, please call 1-800-872-5627.

    The Way It is Copyright ©1998 by the Estate of William Stafford. Reprinted from The Way It is: New & Selected Poems with the permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

    Contents

    Of Suffering and Delight

    A Yarn

    All We See

    She Bet Right

    Tough Grits

    Along Came a Spider

    Visiting Sugar

    Wool Gathering

    The Kindness of Her Hands

    Knitting for the Brain

    Where Babies Come From

    Scout's Honor

    Two Mismatched Mittens

    Mixed-up Muse

    To Every Season

    Dumpster Diving

    The Friend on a Hanger

    Time Will Pass

    Leaving Home

    Different Strokes

    Turn on Point

    Island Traditions

    The Practice is the Point

    Call It Evolution

    Wide Open

    Count-to-ten Stitches

    Matching Insides with Outsides

    The Soul's Purpose

    Remembering How Good Life Can Be

    My Giant Grasshopper

    Is It a Boy or a Girl?

    Nursing Dad

    Heart Strings

    Being Loved

    Listening for the Beat

    Stitches That Danced

    Beauty for Beauty's Sake

    Living in the Body

    A Knitting Century (Almost)

    Broken Dreams

    Sources of Yarn and Pleasure

    More Bad News

    Timeless Time

    My Mother's Shawl

    Losing a Mother

    A Talisman in Yarn

    A Few Good Men

    Macho Knitting

    Working at Home

    Each in Her Own Way

    Knitting in Public

    The Sacred and the Profane

    Yarn to Ashes

    In Sickness and in Health

    A Lost Needle

    All Shall Be Well

    The Angel's Hand

    Love from Betsy

    Things I Cannot Change

    Monkey See…

    Winds of the Canyon

    Confessions of Fear

    Jik Jik Jik

    Greater Than

    Healthy Selfishness

    Nurse Whatley

    All Thumbs

    Who is My Copilot?

    Looking for Men Who Knit

    Boys Will Be Boys

    Not a Family Legacy

    Recycle and Reuse

    Always New Territory

    Playtime

    To Celebrate the Self

    The Way It Is

    Goodnight Moon

    Recommended Reading

    Acknowledgments

    Of Suffering and Delight

    I discovered the broad magic of knitting when I was eight years old. The year I turned fifty, I was still knitting. That was the year my mother died and I learned to write haiku. I found the way of knitting and the way of haiku have much in common. Both teach focus, patience, and presence in a baffling world of suffering and delight. Both revel in the beauty of the turn— whether it's at the end of a row of knitting or at the end of a line of haiku. Both practices help me loop my life together.

    The glide of my hands

    In my knitting I am free

    It is my ocean

    A Yarn

    Yarn can mean a strand of twisted threads used for knitting. It can also mean a long and entertaining narrative filled with adventures and lore. I hoped to write this book as a poetic and philosophical journey through my knitting life. Once I spun my yarn, I discovered I had knit myself into yet another shape. Whether you are a shape-shifting knitter or not, may the words I have poured through my heart and hands bring you pleasure. May they incline your own heart toward tenderness for yourself and the challenging life you face. I believe in the work we each do, that it serves those who came before, those who are with us now, and those who will come after.

    With the words and yarn

          How will I dance the right step?

    Mystery leads me

    All We See

    As a child I read that Helen Keller knit. I put on a blindfold and felt my way through my house. For Helen, was all color black? Did the tap of her knitting needles pulse like a butterfly wing close at hand? Perhaps she felt the texture of yarn and smelled its odor more acutely than a sighted person. Today I cast my eyes down to look at my own knitting. What grace to see, in whatever way, creation's beauty.

    Ineffable force

    My unique experience:

    Together we knit

    She Bet Right

    In 1960, the summer after second grade, Mrs. Warwick moved in next door. We lived in

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