Raymond Roseliep

Raymond Roseliep (August 11, 1917 – December 6, 1983) was a poet and contemporary master of the English haiku and a Catholic priest. He has been described as "the John Donne of Western haiku."Brooks Books Mini-chapbooks

Early life Born on August 11, 1917, in Farley, Iowa, to John Albert Roseliep (1874–1939) and Anna Elizabeth Anderson (1884–1967). In 1939 he graduated from Loras College with a Bachelor of Arts, in 1948 he received a Master of Arts in English from Catholic University of America, and in 1954 he received a Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature from Notre Dame University. He was ordained, June 12, 1943, at St. Raphael's Cathedral, Dubuque, Iowa.

Poetry He won the Haiku Society of America Harold G. Henderson award in 1977 and 1982. In 1981, Roseliep's haiku sequence, “The Morning Glory”, appeared on over two thousand buses in New York City: takes in the world from the heart out

funnels our day into itself

closes on its own inner light

Bibliography The Linen Bands - 1961 The Small Rain - 1963 Love Makes the Air Light - 1965 Flute Over Walden - 1976 Walk in Love - 1976 Light Footsteps - 1976 A Beautiful Woman Moves with Grace - 1976 Sun in His Belly - 1977 Step on the Rain - 1977 Wake to the Bell - 1977 A Day in the Life of Sobi-Shi - 1978 Sailing Bones - 1978 Sky in My Legs - 1979 Firefly in My Eyecup - 1979 The Still Point – Haiku of Mu - 1979 Listen to Light - 1980 Swish of a Cow Tail - 1982 Rabbit in the Moon, Alembic Press (November 1983) The Earth We Swing On - 1984

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