snow on the water: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku [Paperback]

Jim Kacian (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 12, 1999

The annual anthology of the best haiku and related works published in English around the world in calendar year 1998.

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175 works by over 100 authors, including haiku, senryu, linked forms, haibun, essays, and criticism.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Red Moon Pr (May 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965781887
• ISBN-13: 978-0965781886
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,385,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable!, December 17, 2000

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This review is from: snow on the water: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku (Paperback)

"Snow on the Water - The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 1998" is an excellent collection of haiku-related material. The aim of the editors is to collect the most notable material published each year. In the 1998-edition, there are 175 haiku and senryu (of excellent quality!), 8 or so haibun and 6 examples of linked haiku. There are also 4 very short essays and 2 longer essays on haiku, one by J. P. Trammell, "Haiku: Toward an Organic Definition for the West", where he compares the western and eastern minds in relation to haiku, exploring the differences in sensibilities and associations. A great essay! In the other longer essay "Issa: The Uses of Adversity" Anita Virgil examines and evaluates Issa's poetry placing the poems in three different stacks "haiku", "senryu" and "pure crie de coeur", clarifying the mixed feelings a reader of Issa's poetry might experience.

"The Red Moon Anthology" provides an invaluable resource to any haiku-fan who has limited access to haiku periodicals or haiku collections. This is an indispensable publication, a Reader's Digest in the best sense of the word.