I ordered a number of books (mostly poetry or memoir, as usual) with some money I received as a gift for the holidays. Here are the ones that have arrive thus far: Blackwell, Danny, ed. and trans. Haiku from Iberia and Beyond. N.p.: Mono Ya Mono Books, 2018. Chiyo-ni. Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master. Edited andContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Post-Holiday Edition”
Monthly Archives: December 2024
Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Edition
As usual, I received some books as holiday gifts. Here they are: Granberry, Julian, and Gary S. Vescelius. Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2004. Jemisin, N.K. The City We Became. New York: Orbit Books, 2020. Nin, Anaïs. Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-32. Boston: Mariner,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Holiday Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Anabaptist Community Bible. Harrisonburg, VA: MennoMedia, 2025. This Bible, which includes commentary from early Anabaptists as well as present-day Anabaptist scholars, is part of the worldwide Anabaptism at 500 project created to celebrate the beginning of Anabaptism on 21 January 1525. Whitman, Walt. Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself. Illustrated by Allen Crawford. Portland: Tin HouseContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Writing Activity, November 2024
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, November 2024”
Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition
Bashō. Bashō’s Narrow Road: Spring & Autumn Passages; “Narrow Road to the Interior” and the Renga Sequence “A Farewell Gift to Sora”. Translated by Hiroaki Sato. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. My obsession with Bashō continues! I have several other translations of Narrow Road…, but I haven’t read A Farewell Gift to Sora before.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”
Daniel Shank Cruz 