Browse Items (5363 total)

Penny Harter’s mature volume from 1987 evokes the connectedness, both visceral and uncanny, of all things, between species and between ourselves.
Published in honor of the Yamagata Basho Festival, 1987
The volume also contains one rengay, with…

Paul O. Williams sustains a reverie for a nearly lost natural world and for the humans who share it in this elegantly produced chapbook from 1999 (Brooks Books). six folded sections, hand-sewn
Contains an introductory essay by Williams entitled "The…

H. F. “Tom” Noyes, who moved to Greece as a young man, never tired of his relationship with water and especially the sea, as can be seen in this version of his 1996 collection (Editura Leda)
With a foreword by Elizabeth St. Jacques, an introduction…

Donald Johns is not a household name, and we offer this selection as a reminder of the kinds of work typical in a book of its time (Four Winds Press, 1982): informed in a certain way, friendly, casual.
With an introduction by the author.

Tateo Fukutomi published this book (Kaiteishinsha, 2000) in Japanese and English, a commonplace now but relatively rare at the time. The interplay of naturalism and whimsy is to become a regular feature in contemporary Japanese haiku in translation.

Claire Cooperstein’s attractive, self-produced (1986) chapbook is representative of the norm of its time: beautiful papers, crisp type, artless sketches, and an amiable attentiveness to “moments,” in this case with a personal formal style and no…

Francine Porad was a painter before she was a haiku poet, and she often combined her talents in her numerous publications. This volume represents her at a mature stage in both arts.
With a foreword by John Stevenson.

Carol Montgomery wrote some of the most memorable senryu in the language, many of which appeared in this volume (Los Hombres Press, 1992), so it is disappointing that she has been absentee from the haiku world for more than a decade.

John Sheirer was a shooting star through the haiku sky in the late 1990s, focusing on the humorous aspects of life, and especially family relations. This volume (Riverstone Books, 1997) gives a goodly sampling of his major preoccupations in his…

Gloria Maxson was widely published in the journals of rhe 1970s, and this volume (Triton Press, 1976) captures the style of the poems of the time: nature-infused, three lined (and often stair-stepped), aiming-at-17-syllabled, punctuated and…