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Selected essays and translations of Japanese poets from the writings of Helen Shigeko Isaacson.

Lafcadio Hearn's stories are reworkings of old Oriental materials, including folk tales, legends, superstitions and previous historical publications. The volume contains 15 such stories, plus three essays on the importance of insects in Buddhist…

This book by Lafcadio Hearn, published in 1904, was one of the earliest attempts by a foreigner to interpret Japanese culture as a whole to the West. Written during the period of the Meiji reforms, it reflects the dominant emphasis during that period…

Issa is arguably the most popular haiku poet of all time. His emotional plaints touch the heartstrings of all of us
across the centuries, pointed up nicely on this broadsheet of translations by Dennis Maloney (White Pine Press, 2005).
English…

An introduction to the writing of haiku by Jim Kacian, one of the premier practitioners of the art writing in English today.
188 pages, with an introduction by the author and a glossary of important terms.

Ken Leibman founded South by Southeast (then a newsletter) and was perhaps the most democratic editor Frogpond has ever seen. He was also a noted poet with a strong regional bent, as evidenced in this handsome chapbook from 1990 (druidoaks).
Kenneth…

John Martone has refined his inimitable style in scores of small handmade books. Typical of this output is the present volume of 18 poems.

Pamela Miller Ness is a former officer of the Haiku Society of America, and an accomplished haikai poet. Her later work is primarily in tanka, but this chapbook of haiku from 1997 displays her talent in that genre as well.

Bill Pauly was one of the first poets to explore the use of concrete poetry effects in English-language haiku, and never better than in this, his remarkable and prescient first chapbook.
74 haiku, with a brief bio of the author.

Edward Rielly wrote this meditative book partly in thrall to Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi, which he quotes and to which his poems respond.
9 haiku.