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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."
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) ISBN 978-0-934184-16-8
- The Earth We Swing On - 1984
See also
Portals:
References
- David Dayton, ed. (1980) A Roseliep Retrospective: Poems & Other Words By & About Raymond Roseliep. Ithaca, New York: Alembic Press ISBN 978-0-934184-04-5
External links
- Selected Roseliep haiku
- An academic analysis of the poems of Roseliep
- A chronology of Roseliep's life
- 1917 births
- 1983 deaths
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American Roman Catholic priests
- American Catholic poets
- American male poets
- American Roman Catholic writers
- Catholics from Iowa
- Catholic University of America alumni
- English-language haiku poets
- Loras College alumni
- People from Dubuque County, Iowa
- Poets from Iowa
- University of Notre Dame alumni
- Writers from Dubuque, Iowa