Collections of Poetry:
Kicking The Rain (2010)
Raising The Blade:
Collected Haiku and Tanka 1980-2000
(online collection, AHA Books Online, AHA Press)
Rader gives full weight and measure to each sparsely worded reflection, incorporating intelligence and compassion as well as verbal and metaphysical wit. His subjects deal with the spiritual and the temporal, and he achieves a musicality in his poems which is both lyrical and elegiac, communicating deeply felt and strongly assessed emotion. His poems are rich in language and sensibility and in their mindfulness of the extraordinary mystery of the ordinary.
Adele Kenny (2001)
http://www.ahapoetry.com/raisbk3.htm
Neon Shapes (1985)
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1985 Merit Book Award Winner
Haiku Society of America
Other Awards and Events Eri Nakamura Award, Most Outstanding haiku published in the year 1986 in Modern Haiku Journal, an international journal of haiku Japan Airlines Award, International award for outstanding haiku in North America; chosen for Anthology of 100 poems from an entry of 48,000 poems, 1988 The John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden Award for outstanding Haiku, 1987 First and Second Place awards Neon Shapes: The Music Performed a reading with jazz accompaniment with composer of a jazz composition for NEON SHAPES Art Exhibit, Soho Gallery, New York City Exhibit of sculpture/poem piece created in collaboration with the artist, Fred Duignan, on the gallery theme, "The Collaborative Voice: Writers and Artists" | |