Customer Reviews:

• "Before I read a word of this book, I was struck by the simple beauty of its design, in which traditional and modern elements meet happily. Taking us through the seasons and then to a place beyond them, the author somehow manages to make his voice heard even in the empty spaces between the haiku... a voice that moves deftly from whitest light to blackest night, showing us all the shades and shadows in between." - S. Barry

• "Visual, engaging and thought provoking. I have read the verses several times and find something new each time." - J.C. Burhoe

• Haiku for the beholder
"By the look of his chapbook Persimmons, Bret Wooldridge learned a few things about haiku during the year and a half he was in Japan. One of those lessons was that ordinary events can require a shorter haiku form than the traditional 5-7-5 syllable tradition.

Beauty being in the eye of the beholder, judge the result for yourself from the three excerpts below:

fence repair:
each hammer blow
knocks birds off the roof

*****

weathered gray boards —
tired of being a house,
curl from the wall.

*****

waking angrily —
I turn on the light
for a single flea

When Wooldridge isn’t writing poetry in the Santa Cruz Mountains, he whiles the time away by playing his guitar." - Santa Cruz Sentinel