Portable Planet: Poems (Leaping Dog Press Book, # 1)

The poems in Portable Planet depict Shaffer's travels around the Pacific Rim: in California, Japan, and Indonesia. From Okinawan hermit crab to America's E stamp to unexpected glories of baldness, lines shine with humor and compassion. The Western Room, the central poem, explores Okinawa with a walking tour of Shuri Castle, once the royal red heart of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Part ecological manifesto, part travelogue, part playful musings on being foreign and native wherever one is, Eric Paul Shaffer's Portable Planet is a book that will make you laugh, scratch your head in amazement at the author's skill, and above all keep reading. Shaffer is well-schooled in literature, but refuses to write only for academics and other poets. He writes for you and me, poems of accurate observation and ordinary experience, poems that are amusing and profound even when they are not downright funny, which they often are.

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