Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition

The Haiku Society of America Twentieth Anniversary Book Committee. A Haiku Path: The Haiku Society of America 1968-1988. New York: Haiku Society of America, 1994.

I’ve heard about this anthology before and have been wanting to read it because of my interest in the history of haiku. I recently found a used copy online.

Hoffmann, Yoel, ed. Japanese Death Poems Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1986.

I’ve seen this book–still in print after 39 years!–in bookstores before and thought about buying it, and yesterday I saw it at the Barnes & Noble at Union Square and decided that it was time.

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