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Frogpond 37.2 • 2014

Museum of Haiku
Literature Award

Haiku & Senryu

Essay - Haiku and War

Haibun

Haiku Sequence

Renku

Book Reviews

From the Editors

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Meltdown: an anthology of haiku edited by Stephen Henry Gill

Stephen Henry Gill, ed. Meltdown: an anthology of haiku. Kansai, Japan: Hailstone Haiku Circle, 2013, 226 pp., perfect softbound, 5 x 7.5 inches. ISBN 978-4-9900822-5-3. US$20 airmail postage paid from the editor at <heelstone@gmail.com>.

reviewed by George Swede, Toronto, Ontario

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d(ark) by John Stevenson

John Stevenson. d(ark). Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2014, unpag., perfect softbound, 5 x 7 inches. ISBN 978-1- 936848-27-0, US$12 from <www.redmoonpress.com>.

reviewed by Michael McClintock, Clovis, California

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Briefly Reviewed

briefly reviewed by Michele Root-Bernstein, East Lansing, Michigan
& Francine Banwarth, Dubuque, Iowa

<Briefly Reviewed>
(complete PDF version)

Carol Pearce-Worthington. We Are Not to Sing in the Car, Haibun 2005–2013. New York, NY: 2014, perfect softbound, 107 pp., 5.5 by 8.5 inches. ISBN 978-1-492873-83-9. US$11.99.

Graham High. The Window That Closes. Arlington, VA: Turtle Light Press, 2013, perfect softbound, 26 pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. ISBN 978-0-974814-7-42. US$11.95 from <www.turtle lightpress.com>.

David Cobb. Anchorage, Selected Haiku 1991–2013. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2014, perfect softbound, 100 pp., 5.25 x 7.75 inches. ISBN 978-1-936848-26-3. US$17 from <www.redmoonpress.com>.

Mitsu Suzuki. A White Tea Bowl, 100 Haiku from 100 Years of Life. Translated from the Japanese by Kate McCandless. Berkeley, CA: Rodmell Press, 2014, perfect softbound, 165 pp., 5.5 x 8.25 inches. ISBN 978-1-930485-35-8. US$14.95 from <www.rodmellpress.com>.

Dietmar Tauchner. Noise of Our Origin / Rauschen Unseres Ursprungs. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2013, perfect softbound, unpaginated, 4.25 x 6.5 inches. ISBN 978-1-936848-27-0. US$12 from <www.redmoonpress.com>.

paul m. Wanderlost. Illustrations by Merrill Ann Gonzales. No place, 2014, unpag. (36 pp.), handsewn card covers, 4.25 x 5.5 inches. No ISBN. US$8 from Paul Miller at Modern Haiku, PO Box 930, Portsmouth, RI 02871.

Cherie Hunter Day. Apology Moon. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2013, unpag. (76 pp.), perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.5 inches. ISBN 978-1-936848-28-7. US$12 from <www.red moonpress.com>.

Charlotte Digregorio. Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All. Winnetka, IL: Artful Communicators Press, 2014, 232 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.5 inches. ISBN 978-0- 9912139-0-0. US$19.95 from the publisher at <artfulcommunicators@icloud.com> or PO Box 25, Winnetka, IL 60093.

Steven Carter. The Distances of Sleep (2013); City of Shaded Light; Heart Murmurs; Letters to My Parents (2014), all published by Alba Publishing, Uxbridge, U.K., perfect softbound, 5.75 x 8.25 inches. US$15/$16 from the publisher. After Vincent and Theo. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2014, 177 pp., perfect softbound, 5 x 7.5 inches. US$12 from <www.redmoonpress.com>.

Jim Kacian & the Red Moon Staff, eds. Fear of Dancing: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2013. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2014, 194 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.25 inches. ISBN 978-1-946848-24-9. US$17 from <www.redmoonpress.com>.

James Fuson. Twenty Years: Reflections of an Empty Sky. Detroit, MI: [sic] Press, 2014, 78 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.25 inches. No ISBN. US$15 from <www.sicpress.org>.

Stanley Pelter. Haibun Notebook. Hampshire, U.K.: George Mann Publications, 2013, 158 pp., perfect softbound, 6 x 9 inches. ISBN 978-1-907640-00-1.

Franco Debono. Almond Blossoms. Malta: Privately Printed., 2012, 75 pp., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.75 inches. ISBN 978-99957-0-307-3. No price given from <www.play.com>.

David Oates. Drunken Robins. Columbus, GA: Brick Road Poetry Press, 2011, 109 pp., perfect softbound, 5.25 x 8 inches. ISBN 978-0-9841005-1-4. US$12.95 from <www.brickroadpoetrypress.com>.

James Fowler. Falling Ashes. Brookline, NH: Hobblebush Books, 2013, 54 pp., perfect softbound, 6 x 9 inches. ISBN 978-1-939449-02-3. US$16 from <www.hobblebush.com>.

Rob Flipse and Eric Hellal. Haikool: 108 Haijins. France: Éditions L’iroli, 2013, 141 pp., perfect softbound, 7 x 6.75 inches. ISBN 978-2-916616-19-3. Price: 15 € from <editions liroli@yahoo.fr>.

Gabriel Rosenstock. The Naked Octopus. Ireland: Evertype, 2013, 77 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.5 inches. ISBN 978- 1-78201-048-7. US$10.95 from <www.evertype.com>.

Philomene Kocher. Singing in the Silo. Ontario: Catkin Press, 2014, 74 pp., perfect softbound, 5 x 8 inches. ISBN 978-0-9880784-9-9. $15 Cdn + S/H from the author at <pkocher24@gmail.com>.

Jon Petruschke. Dream Haiku: Poems from Nights and Naps. No place: CreateSpace, 2013, 200 pp., perfect softbound, 5 x 6 inches. ISBN 978-0-615916-51-4. US$9.50.

briefly reviewed by Michele Root-Bernstein, East Lansing, Michigan
& Francine Banwarth, Dubuque, Iowa

<Briefly Reviewed>
(complete PDF version)

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