"The Haiku Year exists because seven friends made a pact to write haikus every day for a year as a way to keep in touch with each other. The finished product is a document of a year’s worth of moments filled with joy, sorrow and unexpected beauty. The book y creates the sense that present moments do not just disappear and provides a visceral understanding of how these moments fit into the context of the rest of our lives.The short verses ..."
In Bikole Eight modern stories about life in a West African village by TomGilroy Hardcover, 83 Pages, Published 1978 by Knopf : Distributed By Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-394-83722-2, ISBN: 0-394-83722-3
"Short stories revealing various aspects of life among the Serers in the West African village of Bikole."
"The Haiku Year exists because seven friends made a pact to write haikus every day for a year as a way to keep in touch with each other. The finished product is a document of a year’s worth of moments filled with joy, sorrow and unexpected beauty. The book y creates the sense that present moments do not just disappear and provides a visceral understanding of how these moments fit into the context of the rest of our lives.The short verses ..."
Spring Forward by TomGilroy Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2000 by Water Row Press ISBN-13: 978-0-934953-73-3, ISBN: 0-934953-73-2
"This is the book based on the film starring Ned Beatty and Liev Schreiber. This novelization of the screenplay by Tom Gilroy is the masterful story of one year in the lives of two men who both work as Connecticut parks workers. The best friendships come out of nowhere. Buy the book. See the movie."
"A year of haiku moments pares life down to the sparest of language, including contributions from Douglas Martin, Grant Lee Phillips, Tom Gilroy, Anna Grace, Rick Roth, Jim McKay, and others. Original."
"This gentle story of friendship follows two city groundskeepers in a small town: a young ex-con named Paul (Liev Schreiber, The Daytrippers, A Walk on the Moon) with aspirations of holistic healing, and an old hand named Harold (Ned Beatty, Deliverance, Hear My Song) who's grappling with the illness of his son. There's no plot to speak of, just the slow rhythms of a developing friendship, captured with grace and nuance. In the wro ..."
In Bikole Eight Modern Stories About Life in a West African Village Gilroy, Tom by TomGilroy Library, Published 1978 by Random Library ISBN-13: 978-0-394-93722-9, ISBN: 0-394-93722-8