Green Room Haiku: Scraps From the Road

Written in the fluorescent-lit quiet before the show (on setlists, cocktail napkins, and the backs of guitar cases) Green Room Haiku is Jack Norton's road-worn love letter to a life spent chasing the next town, the next stage, the next song.Composed backstage in green rooms across America while touring with a bluegrass band, this collection strips the traveling musician's life down to its essentials: the hum of tires on interstate asphalt, the half-empty venues and the sold-out ones, the loneliness of a hotel bed and the electricity of a crowd singing along. Critically acclaimed poet Jack Norton captures it all in haiku's tight, unforgiving form: three lines at a time, scraps of truth pulled straight from the road.This isn't poetry written from a desk. It's poetry written between soundcheck and downbeat, in the in-between hours that most people never see... the real, unglamorous, quietly beautiful life behind the music.For fans of Norton's raw, observational style, road-life memoirs, and anyone who's ever wondered what it actually feels like to live out of a van and a suitcase for the sake of a song... Green Room Haiku is a front-row seat to the parts of touring that never make it into the liner notes.Perfect for readers of: haiku and short-form poetry, music memoirs, and anyone who romanticizes (or has lived) life on the road.