Subtitle: A bilingual anthology of Haiku by 105 Poets from India.
Chandigarh, India: privately printed, 2008; 70+5 pp., 4.5×7″ (115×177 mm), US$2.5 + s&h from the editor, 1224, Sector 42-B, Chandigarh, 160 036 India.
With thanks to the editor.
With this modest collection, the initial attempts of Indian poets to grasp Japanese haiku and make something of their [...]
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Subtitle: Poems and Meditations on Nature and Beauty.
London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 2006.
Full color illus. throughout, approx 7×7″ (175×175 mm), 160 pp., US$12.95, CDN$16.95.
With thanks to Michael Lustbader.
Now this is exactly the kind of book that rankles me. An overcooked gifty book trading on a kind of effete understanding of Japanese sensibility, with a dozen different [...]
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Matsuyama, Japan: Prinart, 2007.
With thanks to the Shiki Team.
This is a perfect-bound book of some 68 pages, approx. 18 x 25.5 cm (7 x 10″), with color cover and inside black and white images by Masahiko Fujita. The book is fully bilingual, Japanese and English, except for the title and table of contents, which are [...]
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Japanese title: 『新しい池—英語圏の俳人たち』 宮下 恵美子 編者訳者
Tokyo: Hokumeisha, 2002.
With belated thanks to Emiko!
This book came to Penny and me in July of 2002, and somehow got left at our son’s house. On a visit there just a few days ago, I saw it on a shelf, and, not recognizing it as mine, pulled it down to [...]
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Posted in Anthologies, tagged haiku, therapy on 8 December 2007 | 3 Comments »
No author/editor listed as such (see below). Kingston, Ontario: Rideaucrest Home, 2007.
With thanks to Philomene Kocher.
This project is the brainchild of Marjorie J. Woodbridge, Coordinator of Spiritual Care at Rideaucrest Home in Kingston, and poet Philomene Kocher. The flyer that came with a lovely note from Phil Kocher and this small booklet (~13.5 x 11 [...]
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Chandigarh, India: the author, 2007.
With thanks to the author.
This edited collection is fully bilingual, English and Hindi. (My apologies, I do not understand the orthography well enough to hazard the title in Hindi here.) Mainly a collection of work that has appeared elsewhere in English and/or Japanese, the book opens with a fine introductory essay [...]
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Posted in Anthologies, tagged haiku, renga, tanka on 8 November 2007 | No Comments »
St Martin de Castillon: Koyama Press, 2006.
Gift of Giselle Maya, [editor and] publisher, to whom much thanks.
This handsomely produced booklet of 36 unnumbered pages comes sewn inside a stiff hand-made paper cover, the insides nicely printed on high-quality book paper, all in pleasing earth-tones. (The production values suggest letter-press, though that does not seem to [...]
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