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Frogpond 38.1 • 2015

Museum of Haiku
Literature Award

Haiku & Senryu

Essay - Beautiful Dance

Haibun

Haiku Sequence

Renku

Book Reviews

From the Editors

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The Devil is a Child by Collin Barber

Collin Barber. The Devil is a Child. Stoke-on-Trent, England: Yet to Be Named Free Press, 2014, 125 pp., perfect softbound, 5.25 X 8.25 inches. ISBN 978-1-493748-06-8.

reviewed by Dan Schwerin, Greendale, Wisconsin

<The Devil is a Child - review>
(complete PDF version)

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Journeys, An Anthology of International Haibun

Angelee Deodhar, ed. Journeys, An Anthology of International Haibun. Hyderabad, India: Nivasini Publishers, 2014, 252 pp., perfect softbound, 6 x 8 inches. ISBN 978-8-192960-21-6. Price: Rs 300/India and others US$18 (postage paid). Contact: angeleedeodhar@gmail.com.

reviewed by Marjorie Buettner, Chisago City, Minnesota

<Journeys, An Anthology of International Haibun - review>
(complete PDF version)

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remembering Nick Virgilio a film by Sean Dougherty

Sean Dougherty, director/producer. remembering Nick Virgilio. Available from the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association. Contact Mary Heron of the NVHA: mhheron@verizon.net.

reviewed by Michele Root-Bernstein, East Lansing, Michigan

<remembering Nick Virgilio- review>
(complete PDF version)

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Briefly Reviewed

<Briefly Reviewed>
(complete PDF version)

Abigail Friedman, ed. I Wait for the Moon, 100 Haiku of Momoko Kuroda. Berkeley, CA: Stoner Bridge Press, 2014, 144 pp., softbound, 5.25 x 7.25 inches. ISBN 978-1-61172-016-7. US$14.95 from www.stonebridge.com.

David G. Lanoue. Issa and the Meaning of Animals: A Buddhist Poet’s Perspective. New Orleans, LA: HaikuGuy.com, 2014, 292 pp., softbound, 5.25 x 8 inches. ISBN 978-0- 9912840-2-3. US$12.99 from www.Amazon.com.

Roberta Beary & Lenard D. Moore, eds. 7. Durham, NC: Jacar Press, 2013, 52 pp., softbound, 5 x 7 inches. No ISBN. US$15 & $3 postage @ www.jacarpress.com.

John Martone. mantram. samuddo/ocean, 2014, 38 pp., softbound, 5.75 x 8.75 inches. ISBN 978-1-312-23608-0.

John Martone. thrip. samuddo/ocean, 2014, 88 pp., soft-bound, 4.25 x 7 inches. ISBN 978-1-312-38714-0.

[John Martone.] monera. samuddo/ocean, 2014, 96 pp., soft-bound, 5.75 x 8.25 inches. ISBN 978-1-312-43841-5. Contact johnmartone@gmail.com.

Robert Epstein, ed. The Sacred in Contemporary Haiku. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014, 266 pp., perfect softbound, 6 x 9 inches. ISBN 978-1-500993-01-6. US$19.50 from online booksellers.

Tanya McDonald, et al., eds. No Longer Strangers. Bellevue, WA: Vandina Press, 2014, 152 pp., perfect softbound, 6 x 9 inches. ISBN 978-1-887381-27-7. US$15 + postage from www.createspace.com.

Elizabeth Crocket. not like Fred and Ginger. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2014, unpag. (21 pp.), perfect softbound, 4 x 5.25 inches. No price given from www.redmoon press.com.

James G. Brueggemann. After the Night Rain. Oberlin, OH: Dankworth Publishing, 2014, 102 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.5 inches. ISBN 978-0-9855676-2-0. US$12.95 from www.Amazon.com.

David Grayson, ed. The Half-Finished Bridge. Alameda, CA: Two Autumns Press, 2014, 32 pp., perfect softbound, 5.25 x 8.5 inches. No ISBN. No price given, from Haiku Poets of Northern California, www.hpnc.org.

Garry Gay, ed. One Song. Santa Rosa, CA: Two Autumns Press, 2014, 72 pp., perfect softbound, 5.25 x 8.5 inches. ISBN 978-1-63443-616-8. US$10 from www.hpnc.org.

Jim Kacian, Bruce Ross, Ken Jones, eds. Contemporary Haibun, Volume 15. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2014, 116 pp., perfect softbound, 5.25 x 8.25 inches. ISBN 978-1-936848-25-6. US$17 from www.redmoonpress.com.

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

<Briefly Reviewed>
(complete PDF version)

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