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Volume
33.3
Autumn 2002
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book
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The
New Pond: An English-language Haiku Anthology
edited and translated by Emiko Miyashita
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reviewed
by Lee Gurga
The
New Pond: An English-language Haiku Anthology,
edited and translated by Emiko Miyashita (Tokyo:
Hokumeisha, 2002). In Japanese, with haiku in English.
128 pages, 6" x 7I", perfectbound. ISBN
4-89448-319-X. $18.00 from Brooks Books, 3720 Woodridge
Dr., Decatur, IL 62526; or <http://www.family-net.net/
~brooksbooks/newpond.html>.
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A
collection of twelve columns that originally appeared in
Haiku kai (Haiku World), the leading national
haiku monthly in Japan. Each of the first eleven columns
present ten haiku in English and Japanese translation by
poets from a particular geographical area in the West. Columns
are included on several groups throughout the U.S. as well
as Canada and the United Kingdom. The last column presents
haiku and tanka about September 11. There is also an epilogue
that details the author’s haiku travels, illustrated
with photographs of haiku poets throughout the world. While
all the introductory essays but one are in Japanese, the
editor promises translations of the essays to those who
order the book. An interesting anthology of English-language
haiku from the Japanese perspective.
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