William Dennis

Eastern Structures No. 15 William Dennis

The world's premier publisher of Asian forms in English, Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now in addition to Korean sijo and Japanese forms such as haiku and tanka - rendered exclusively in the 5-7-5 and 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structures. Issue 15 features the ghazals of Muhammad Sallahudin Bin Abdul Rahim, William Dennis, Denver Butson, and Eric Torgersen; the sijo of Michael Wilson and Gareth Writer-Davies; the haiku and senryu of Priscilla Lignori, Danielle Woerner, Dante Gray, Jim Wilson, Mitchell Grabois, James Lignori, Neal Whitman, Michael T. Smith, Steve Denehan, and several others; detailed annotation on the composition of his 'All-Knowing' by poet Muhammad Sallahudin Bin Abdul Rahim; and 'Was "The End" the Beginning?', a consideration of The Doors' classic recording as ghazal by R. W. Watkins.