The Reading Room

Essays

Buson's Two Candles by Anita Virgil
Complete Essay from Episode 14.

The Narrow Thread by Anita Virgil 
Complete Essay from Episode 12. In 2004 Ray Bradbury wrote to Virgil calling it “fascinating.”

 

Books

Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology
edited by Hiroaki Sato (M. E. Sharpe, 2007)

Baseball Haiku
edited by Cor van den Heuvel (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007)

"Will inspire some ball fans to be poets and some poets to be ballplayers." -- Library Journal, starred review

The Haiku Anthology, 3rd edition
edited by Cor van den Heuvel (W. W. Norton & Company, 2000)

How to Haiku
edited by Bruce Ross (Tuttle Publishing, 2002)

Haiku
by R.H. Blyth
in four volumes, Volume 1: Eastern Culture. Volume 2: Spring. Volume 3:Summer-Autumn. Volume 4: Autumn-Winter.
(The Hokuseido Press, 1949-1952)

Senryu: Japanese Satirical Verses
by R.H. Blyth (The Hokuseido Press, 1949)