A review and discussion of Makoto Ueda’s book of senyru, “Light Verse from the Floating World” with hosts Donna Beaver and Alan Pizzarelli.
Intro Poem:
“at the teahouse
he puffs rings of smoke
all day long ”
from "Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu" by Makoto Ueda (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Photograph by Donna Beaver