Lately my writing practice has been focusing more and more on haiku (and senryu), so I’ve been reading a lot about its lineage. I also had a birthday earlier this month and received some books as gifts/bought some books with money I received as a gift.
Birthday books:
De Los Reyes, T. And Yet Held. Durham, NC: Bull City Press, 2023.
Lin, Jeremy Atherton. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out. 2021. New York: Back Bay Books, 2022.
Seuss, Diane. Modern Poetry: Poems. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2024.
Shaw, Julia. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality. New York: Abrams Press, 2022.
Haiku books:
Bashō, Matsuo. Bashō’s Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Bashō. Edited and Translated by David Landis Barnhill. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.
Takahashi, Mutsuo. A Bunch of Keys: Selected Poems. Translated by Hiroaki Sato. Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1984.
Virgilio, Nick. Collected Haiku 1963-2012. Edited by Geoffrey M. Sill. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2023.
Daniel Shank Cruz 