{"id":8247,"date":"2007-10-09T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/10\/09\/the-unworn-necklace-roberta-bearys"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:41","slug":"the-unworn-necklace-roberta-bearys-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/10\/09\/the-unworn-necklace-roberta-bearys-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unworn Necklace<\/i>: roberta beary’s gems"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Unworn Necklace<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em> Haiku and Senryu, by Roberta Beary<\/a>
\n(Snapshot Press<\/a> 2007)<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> W<\/em><\/strong>hen I first mentioned<\/a> lawyer Roberta Beary at f\/k\/a<\/em>, in August 2004, I confessed that her haiku made me “feel like a poseur” for using the pseudonym haikuEsq<\/em>. Since that time, I’ve grown more and more certain that only Roberta Beary deserves the sobriquet “haikuEsq” — not only because of the quality and quantity of her haiku and senryu, and all the recognition heaped upon her by the haijin community [see our post “yes, her again<\/a>“], but because she continues (unlike myself and f\/k\/a<\/em> Honored Guest Barry George, J.D.<\/a>) to actively practice law<\/a>, as a member of the Washington, D.C. Bar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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custody hearing
\nseeing his arms cross
\ni uncross mine<\/p>\n

custody weekend \"sunglassesG\"
\ninside her backpack
\ncinderella<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\n“custody hearing” – The Unworn Necklace<\/em>; & pocket change<\/em>
\n“custody weekend” – Simply Haiku<\/em><\/a> (Summer 2007, vol 5 no 2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, most lovers of fine haiku don’t know or care that Roberta has a law degree and is a real estate finance attorney. For them, she’s not “the best lawyer haiku poet,” she’s quite simply one of the best damn haiku poets alive — and she has proven it in haiku journals, contests and anthologies, year in and year out, for over a decade. However, to the chagrin of Roberta Beary fans worldwide, there has never been an entire volume of her haiku in existence, to grace our lives and book shelves.<\/p>\n

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the empty place
\ninside me
\n. . . wild lupine<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

— not until now<\/em>, that is. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>For throngs of haiku\/senryu aficionados, therefore, the publication by Great Britain’s Snapshot Press<\/a>, in August 2007, of The Unworn Necklace<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, by Roberta Beary, is a long-awaited, much-anticipated haikai milestone.<\/p>\n

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\"\" In case you can’t tell, TUN<\/em>‘s arrival in late September on this side of the Atlantic, so that I could actually hold it in my warm little hands, was a special treat for me. And, although I . . .:<\/p>\n