Book of the Week: pictographs

zTony Quagliano was born in Brooklyn but lived most of his life in Hawai’i, earning his living as a Professor of American Studies there. Pictographs (Red Moon Press, 2008) is one of the postscript series that posthumously honors poets who have made a substantial contribution to haiku in English. Tony’s work has appeared in all the major journals, and he was one of six Americans chosen to select the haiku that appear on the National Japanese American Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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

Do you have a chapbook published 2010 or earlier you would like featured as a Book of the Week? Contact us for details.

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

evening sun
in the bare hau tree
the pictograph for red
witness
for peace
but who
has seen it
the night nurse
stays to talk
her blue mascara