"Morning in Santiniketan

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Michael Chacko Daniels writes: This is a beautifully handcrafted book of 51 haiku, "Morning in Santiniketan," published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata. In this book of fifty-one haiku, Michael Chacko Daniels' poetic journey starts with “Morning in Santiniketan” in West Bengal, India. Santiniketan, or abode of peace, is a small town in the Indian state of West Bengal. There in the early 1900s, Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore started a progressive school set in a natural environment; his goal was to stimulate joy in learning. The poet explains that "The place and time where each of the fifty-one haiku in this book took form were a Santiniketan for me." ~A Review excerpt~ (From the review by Melanie Daniels (no relation), April 8, 2011, in Hackwriters at the bottom of the following page: http://www.hackwriters.com/Zach.htm) “Each evening a few of us read aloud our favorite haiku from Morning in Santiniketan to each other. When I asked one friend which one was her favorite, she replied that if she sat with any one of these haiku that it would become her favorite. That’s high praise!”

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