On the cover: The Story of Issa, Japanese Haiku Poet (technically, this is not a subtitle, as it does not appear on the title page, but I think it should, and if it had . . . well, read on).
San Carolos, CA: Golden Gate Junior Books, 1970. Illustrated by Lydia Cooley; written “with the editorial [...]
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Fukuda, Hanako. Wind in My Hand.
Posted in Books for Children, History, Translations, tagged Hanako Fukuda, Issa, Lydia Cooley, Mark Taylor, Wind in My Hand on 3 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BfS: Donald Keene. Dawn to the West—Poetry, Drama, Criticism
Posted in Academic Books, Books for Sale, History, Seasons & Calendars, Translations, tagged criticism, Dawn to the West, Donald Keene, drama, poetry on 18 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Full title:
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era—Poetry, Drama, Criticism. (Note that there is another volume with the same title, only differing at the end, where “Fiction” replaces “Poetry, Drama, Criticism”; that other volume is over 1300 pages long, and is not for sale here.)
New York: Henry Holt, 1984. Paperback, 6×9.25″ (15.5×23.5 [...]
Gilbert, Richard. Poems of Consciousness
Posted in Academic Books, Books about haikai, Electronic media, Translations, tagged haiku, Kai Hasegawa, Kiyoko Uda, Poems of Consciousness, Richard Gilbert, Translations on 2 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Subtitle: Contemporary Japanese & English-Language Haiku in Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2008. More details coming later . . .
With thanks to the author and publisher.
I’m really pressed for time, just now, so I’ll offer here the blurb I wrote on this as it was in press:
In Poems of Consciousness, Richard Gilbert investigates Japanese [...]
Deodhar, Angelee, editor & translator. Indian Haiku.
Posted in Anthologies, Bilingual, Translations, tagged Angelee Deodhar, haiku, Hindi, Indian Haiku, Translations on 26 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
