American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers. In the late nineteenth century, Ja

The haiku of acclaimed novelist Richard Wright, written at the end of his...

This book is a transliteration of a audio presentations which were prepared for radio and were heard by millions of listeners througout the country.

Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank auto

A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy “Above all, a haiku must be