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Japanese insect haiku selected and translated of Harold Isaacson and Helen Shigeko Isaacson. With a preface by Harold Isaacson.

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…

This is The Haiku Foundation page for haiku in Hungary. Click the PDF links above to see a history of haiku in Hungary in English; a history of haiku in Hungary in Hungarian; and a collection of haiku from Hungary in both English and Hungarian.

This is The Haiku Foundation page for haiku in the Republic of the Philippines. Click the PDF links above to see a history of haiku in the Philippines in English; and a history of haiku in the Philippines in Tagalog.

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.