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The Ticket-Taker’s Shadow

The Ticket-Taker’s Shadow is a manuscript for a Selected Haiku that Cor van den Heuvel once put together from three of his Chant Press Chapbooks and a number of his haiku sequences. The original publication dates of these materials and where they first appeared, is detailed in the copyright notice the poet created on the page following the title page. Chant Press is his personal imprint, begun in 1959 and extant, though dormant, today. The contents of the three Chant Press chapbooks is presented in their entirety in this manuscript.

van den Heuvel subtitles this volume “Haiku” but a later but abandoned conception of the book was to include additional selections of haibun and solo renga. You will find these deleted pieces in the appendix to this compilation.

Though the layout was completed, The Ticket-Taker’s Shadow was never published. van den Heuvel completed another manuscript, also unpublished, that he intended to stand as a Selected Haiku, titled A Bag of Marbles. It is also available in the van den Heuvel Archives of The Haiku Foundation.

The cover for this electronic version is original to this document.

— Jim Kacian [editor]

Appendix

The following haibun and solo renga were included in a later conception of The Ticket-Taker’s Shadow, but seem to have been dropped from the final version intended by the author.