Book of the Week: Ash

Masaya Saito is best-known for his expert and evocative translation of Saito Sanki’s Kobe Hotel, but this nearly unnoticed short volume of his own work (TELS Press, 1988) carries an elusive and astringent flavor all its own, and well worth cultivating.

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.

Coming from far away
My finger
Touches a snail’s horn

New the blue
Sky a kite
New the circle

An empty plate
Smashing it
Autumn clearer

Waterless river —
I am walking
On the bank

Getting colder
I too
Am shaped

Drawn on the spring
Earth a dense
Vulva