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”
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Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition
Barlow, John, and Martin Lucas, eds. The New Haiku. Liverpool: Snapshot Press, 2002. This germinal anthology was just reprinted, and I ordered a copy as soon as I heard they were available. Durand, Marcella, and Jennifer Firestone, eds. Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. This is aContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
I’ve been doing a bunch of retail therapy book buying as the result of the U.S.’s current political situation. This is a list of what’s come in over the past few days. Agyei-Baah, Adjei. Afriku: Haiku & Senryu from Ghana. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2016. I’m always interested in reading work by other haikuContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Writing Activity, October 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, October 2024”
Books Acquired Recently
Pupello, Tony, ed. street beat: Haiku and Senryū from the Pages of “tsuri-dōrō”. New York: tsuri-dōrō Press, 2024. I recently read a review of this anthology and decided to buy it because of my interest in city haiku. Stiazhkina, Olena. Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary. Translated by Anne O. Fisher. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UkrainianContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: AAMD Edition
I just returned home from the annual Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) conference in Denver, where I acquired the following three books. Hundley, Jessica. Tarot. Köln; Taschen, 2021. I bought this lovely illustrated volume at the Denver Art Museum’s shop. Part of the conference took place at the museum. Jackson, Maggie. Uncertain: The WisdomContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: AAMD Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Higginson, William J. The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1996. I recently began reading Higginson’s Haiku World, the companion volume to The Haiku Seasons, and quickly realized that to get the most out of Haiku World I also needed The Haiku Seasons, so I ordered a copy that came earlierContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Writing Activity, September 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, September 2024”
Books Acquired Recently
Costa, Emily. Until It Feels Right. Orlando: Autofocus Books, 2022. I recently heard about this set of diary entries about having OCD during the early part of the pandemic (something I also experienced), and ordered it right away because of its subject matter and my new interest in reading diaries. Moore, Carley. Heart Less: Poems.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Higginson, William J. Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1996. I’ve had my eye on this haiku classic for a long time, and recently found a used copy online for a good price, so I decided to buy it. Kaufmann, Britt. Midlife Calculus. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2024. I blurbed this poetry collection,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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