Richard Cody - Poetry and Fiction

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The Jewel in The MomentThe Jewel in The Moment (book)

Print: $7.50

"The Jewel in The Moment", subtitled "random observations in Haikuish", collects 80 or so of Richard Cody's best experiments with the Haiku and Tanka forms. Read the book that nobody has called some of the finest English language Haiku ever written!

This is Not My HeartThis is Not My Heart (book)

Print: $15.50

In these six dozen plus poems, Richard Cody ranges easily between free verse observations of life and the world, and lyrical flights of fantasy. No matter the style, the poet's eye is sharp and his voice clear as he annunciates his vision of what is and what might be.

Darker CornersDarker Corners (book)

Print: $10.00

Darker Corners - In these tales you will meet vampires, murderers, children and others who know where the shadows go. Eight strange little fictions shining a light into the darker corners of life and death and the places in between.

Richard Cody is a writer of poetry, fiction and shopping lists. His work, mostly the poetry and fiction, has appeared in numerous print and on-line journals and zines.

The Jewel in The Moment, random observations in Haikuish is the first collection of his experiments with the venerable Haiku form.

This is Not My Heart contains more than 70 poems written over the last decade or so and spanning styles from free and open verse to metered and lyrical rhyme. Subject matter is equally broad, covering slice of life observations on love, writing, and urban life, and fantastic flights of fantasy. A book that can be opened to wry insight and deft wordplay at any page.

Darker Corners collects eight tales of the strange and macabre:

Cody's "horror" stories may contain vampires and murderers, but that's as close as they get to any kind of cliche, for his work touches most truly upon the psychological aspects of both the human and inhuman conditions. With the exception of one thirty plus page "epic" in the middle of the book, these tales are mainly short and sharp - written in the brief style that is known as "flash", or "sudden", fiction. Considering the author's work with the poetic equivalent of "flash fiction", Haiku, it is not surprising that his prose - especially, perhaps, horror tales - would seek to trim away the clutter of excess verbiage, exposition, etc. and cut right to the heart.