I just got back from attending my first Haiku North America conference! It was a great time meeting other haiku writers and celebrating the genre together. There was a sizeable bookfair at which I acquired the following ten volumes: Antolin, Susan, Garry Gay, and Carolyn Hall, eds. The San Francisco Haiku Anthology, Volume Two. WalnutContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku North America Edition”
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Books Acquired Recently
Toews, Miriam. A Truce That is Not Peace. New York: Bloomsbury, 2025. Miriam Toews’s new memoir was just released in the U.S., and I ordered it immediately. Yasuda, Kenneth. A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems Together with Original Haiku. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. This book is a classic of early English-language haiku–the section ofContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”
Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition
Gundy, Jeff. Reports from an Interior Province: New & Selected Poems. Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press, 2025. Gundy has been one of my favorite poets since shortly after I began reading poetry seriously in 2001, so I bought this new volume as soon as it was available. Patterson, Bleah, ed. Surreal Confessional Anthology. Houston: DefunktContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Beachy, Kirsten Eve. Martyrs and Chickens: Confessions of a Granola Mennonite. Telford, PA: DreamSeeker Books, 2025. There has been a significant wave of Mennonite memoirs over the past few years, with Beachy’s being the latest entry. Glenn, Joshua, and Carol Hayes, eds. Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance. New York: Princeton Architectural Press,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Carl-Klassen, Abigail. Village Mechanics. McAllen, TX: FlowerSong Press, 2025. I blurbed this excellent collection of poems from one of the most important Mennonite poets writing today. My copy recently arrived in the mail. Lopez, Robert. Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure. Columbus, OH: Two Dollar Radio, 2023. I heard aboutContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition
Akbar, Kaveh, ed. The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. 2022. London: Penguin Books, 2023. I enjoy Akbar’s own work, and I am very interested in the intersection of literature and religion, and I am obsessed with Penguin paperbacks, so when I came across this book while browsing at the StrandContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Amelina, Victoria. Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2025. I recently heard about this book from a colleague at work. It is a diary about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russians killed Amelina in 2023. Nin, Anaïs. Incest: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition
Fabre, Gilles, ed. and trans. Early Morning Firefly: An Adaptation of the Japanese Saijiki. Dublin: Fishing Cat Press, 8 November 2024. There are very few English-language saijiki (compendiums of haiku season words), so when I recently heard about this one I decided to buy it. Following the Japanese publishing custom, it has an exact dateContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Epstein, Andrew. Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Epstein writes a blog about the New York School of poets, who I am obsessed with, and I’ve been wanting to buy his book for a while, but it is rare and thus fairly expensive. I used some holiday cashContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
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