Resources for HAIKU
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ANTHOLOGIES OF HAIKU

acorn book of contemporary haiku, acorn book company, England, 2000, edited by Lucien Stryk and Kevin Bailey.

A Hidden Pond: Anthology of Modern Haiku. Edited by Kôko Katô and David Burleigh. Kadokawa Shoten, 1997.

A Glimpse of Red : The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku by Jim Kacian, Editor. Red Moon Press, 1999.

A Haiku Garden : The Four Seasons in Poems and Prints by Stephen Addiss, Editor.

A Haiku Menagerie : Living Creatures in Poems and Prints by Stephen Addiss, et al

A Slip of Bamboo : A Collection of Haiku from Maui by Victor C. Pellegrino, Hiroshi Kanzaki (Paperback - January 1996)

A Solitary Leaf: 1996 Haiku Society of America Anthology by Lee Gurga, Randy M. Brooks (Editor) (Paperback - August 1997)

Cricket Never Does : A Collection of Haiku and Tanka by Myra Cohn Livingston, Kees De Kiefte ,Illustrator. (School & Library Binding - April 1997)

Favorite Haiku Volume II by H. F. Noyes. Paperback, Red Moon Press.

Favorite Haiku Volume III by H. F. Noyes. Paperback, Red Moon Press.

Favorite Haiku Volume IV by H. F. Noyes. Paperback, Red Moon Press.

Heiwa : Peace Poetry in English and Japanese. Editors Jiro Nakano & Brien Hallett. University of Hawaii Press.

Haiku in English by Harold Gould Henderson. Charles E Tuttle Co., June 1967.

Haiku, Canadian Anthology. Edited by Dorothy Howard and André Duhaime. Editions Asticou, 1985.

Haiku – One Breath Poetry by Naomi Wakan. Heian International, Inc., 1815 West 205^th Street, Suite #301, Torrance, CA 90501. 1997.

Haiku Handbook : How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by William J. Higginson and Penny Harter. Kodansha - March 1992.

Haiku International 2000 by the Haiku International Association of Japan. Preface by the President, Kogure Gohei, Editor: Nagato Ryûtarô, Translation by Kinuko and Richard Jambor, 2000,

Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku by Bruce Ross, Editor. Charles E Tuttle Co.,1993.

Haiku People : Big and Small in Poems and Prints by Stephen Addiss, et al. Hardcover – May 1998.

Haiku : The Travelers of Eternity by Charles Ghigna, Armor Keller, Illustrator. Hardcover.

Haiku World : An International Poetry Almanac by William J. Higginson, Kodansha, 1997.

Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English, With Selected Examples by Kenneth Yasuda. Charles E Tuttle Co.,1994.

The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology by Faubion Bowers, Editor. Dover Publishers.

The Essence of Modern Haiku by Seishi Yamaguchi, et al. Hardcover - March 1993.

The Haiku Seasons : Poetry of the Natural World by William J. Higginson. Kodansha, 1997.

The Iron book of British Haiku. Edited by David Cobb and Martin Lucus. Iron Press, 1998.

The New Haiku, edited by John Barlow & Martin Lucas. Snapshot Press, PO Box 132, Crosby, Liverpool, L23 8XS, United Kingdom. ISBN: 1-903543-03-7. 

Journey to the Interior : American Versions of Haibun by Bruce Ross, Editor. Charles C. Tuttle, 1998.

Knots, The Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry. Edited by Dimitar Anakiev and Jim Kacian. Prijatelj, 1999.

One Hundred Frogs : From Matsuo Basho to Allen Ginsberg by Hiroaki Sato. Weatherhill,1995.

Outside Robins Sing: Selected Haiku (Brooks Books Collector's Edition) by Paul, O. Williams, et al. Paperback.

New Zealand Haiku Anthology. Edited by Cyril Childs. New Zealand Poetry Society, 1993.

The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor Van Den Heuvel. W.W. Norton, 2000.

The Haiku Anthology : English Language Haiku by Contemporary American and Canadian Poets by Cor Van Den Heuvel (Editor). Simon & Schuster,1974.

The Haiku Bag by Naomi Beth Wakan. Lightsmith Publishing, 2000.

The Land of Seven Realms. Haiku Writers of Gualala Arts. Edited by Jane Reichhold. AHA Books, 1988.

The San Francisco Haiku Anthology. Edited by Jerry Bell, Garry Gay and Tom Tico. San Francisco: Smythe-Waithe Press. 1992.

Those Women Writing Haiku by Jane Reichhold. 

Traces of Dreams : Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho by Haruo Shirane. Paperback - February 1998.

Windows to the Light : Enriching Your Spirit With Haiku Meditations by Lynne D. Finney. Paperback - October 2000.

Young Leaves: An old way of seeing new; Writings on Haiku in English, compiled to celebrate the 25^th Anniversary of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society. Edited by Patricia J. Machmiller and June Hopper Hymas.

BOOKS ABOUT HAIKU WRITERS

Chiyo-Ni : Woman Haiku Master by Patricia Donegan, Translator. Paperback - September 1998.

Cool Melons - Turn to Frogs! : The Life and Poems of Issa by Matthew Gollub. Hardcover - September 1998.

Haiku Guy by David G. Lanoue. Paperback.

Haiku Master Buson by Yuki Sawa, Edith Shiffert. Paperback - June 1978.

Lotus Moon : The Poetry of the Buddhist Nun Rengetsu John Stevens. Paperback -June 1994.

Issa: The Autumn Wind, translation by Lewis Mackenzie. Kodansha, 1984.

Love Haiku: Masajo Suzuki's Lifetime of Love, translated by Lee Gurga & Emiko Miyashita. Brooks Books, August 2000.

Masaoka Shiki by Masaoka Shiki, trans. Burton Watson. Modern Asian Literature Series.

Matsuo Basho. Makoto Ueda. Twayne, 1970.

Ryokan by Ryokan, Burton Watson, Translator. Translations from the Asian Classics.

Ryôkan: Selected Tanka & Haiku translated by Sanford Goldstein, Shigeo Mizuguchi and Fujisato Kitajima. Niigata, Japan: Kôkodô Co, 2001.

The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa by Issa, translated by Lucien Stryk. Paperback - August 1991.

Those Women Writing Haiku by Jane Reichhold. 

SINGLE- AUTHOR BOOKS OF HAIKU

Across the Windharp: Collected and New Haiku by Elizabeth Searle Lamb. La Alameda Press: 2000.

A Dictionary of Haiku Classified by Season Words with Traditional and Modern Methods by Jane Reichhold. 

Almost Unseen : Selected Haiku of George Swede by George Swede. Hardcover - April 2000.

A Moon in Each Eye. Charles Dickson. AHA Books, 1993.

And the Cat, Too. Kazuo Sato. Edited by vincent tripi. AHA Books, 1989.

At the Edge of the Woods. Adele Kenny. Yorkshire House, 1997.

between God & the pine by vincent tripi. Swamp Press: 1997.

Bridge of Voices.  Werner Reichhold. AHA Books, 1990.

Catnips: A Book of Haiku on Cats by Joseph Gustafson, Margaret Robison Richter. Paperback - April 1984.

Children of the Sparrow: Haiku by Robert Gibson. Paperback - 1999.

Cicada Voices: Selected Haiku of Eric Amann 1966-1979 by Eric Amann, Editor. Paperback - July 1983.

Day into Night, A Haiku Journey by Günther Klinge. Haiku selected and adapted by Ann Atwood. Rutland, Vermont - Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1980.

Don't Step on the Sky: A Handful of Haiku by Miriam Chaikin. Hardcover - April 2002.

Drifting with the Moon. Günther Klinge. Selected and arranged with an introduction by Ann Atwood. Rutland, Vermont - Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1978.

Family Farm: Haiku for a Place of Moons by Carol Purington. Winfred Press: 1999.

FIELD: A Haiku Circle. Don Eulert AHA Books, 1998.

Fresh Scent : Selected Haiku of Lee Gurga by Lee Gurga, Randy, M. Brooks, Editor. Hardcover - January 1998.

Grinding my ink : haiku by Margaret Chula. Portland, Oregon: Katsura Press, 1990.

Haiku by Richard Wright. Paperback.

Haiku: The Travelers of Eternity by Charles Ghigna. Hardcover.

Haiku: This Other World by Richard Wright, et al. Hardcover -September 1998.

Handshake. Werner Reichhold. AHA Books, 1989.

In A Warrior's Romance. D.S. Lliteras. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 1991.

Journal Journeys by Jane Reichhold. 

Kernels. Joe Nutt. Nutt Studios, 1989.

Mountain Tasting : Zen Haiku by Santoka Taneda by Sant-Oka Taneda, et al. Paperback - September 1980.

Moving Stillness by David Samuel Bloch.. AHA Books, 1999.

Pale Moonlight by Gerard John Conforti. Deep North Press: 1999.

Presents of Mind by Jim Kacian. Paperback.

October Sun: A Year of Haiku by Joseph Gustafson. Paperback - April 1988.

Rabbit in the Moon. Raymond Roseliep. Alembic, 1983.

Raising the Blade: Collected Haiku & Tanka, 1980 – 2000 R. G. Rader. 

Reed Shadows. John Wills. Burnt Lake, 1987.

School's Out : Selected Haiku of Randy Brooks by Randy Brooks. Paperback.

Sensescapes. Werner Reichhold. AHA Books, 1991.

Shadow Play: Night Haiku by Penny Harter, Simon & Schuster.

Some of Silence. John Stevenson. Red Moon, 1999.

somewhere among the clouds poems - from a year of solitude by vincent tripi. Swamp Press, 1998.

Tamarack & Clearcut. Haiku by Marianne Bluger. Carleton University Press: 1997.

Tendrils of the Eye. George Knox. Riverside, California: Haiku Moments; 1994.

the day i find – poems from a desert hermitage by vincent tripi. Swamp Press.

The Essence of Modern Haiku : 300 Poems by Seishi Yamaguchi by Seishi Yamaguchi, et al. Paperback - March 1993.

The Light Comes Slowly - Short poems from Kyoto by Edith Shiffert. Katsura Press: 1997.

The Measure of Emptiness. Lee Gurga. Press Here, 1991.

This Moment : Tea Ceremony Haiku by Margaret Chula. Portland, Oregon: Katsura Press, 1995.

The Patchwork Quilt. Francine Porad. Vandina Press, 1993.

Tidalwave. Werner Reichhold. AHA Books, 1989.

White Crow Haiku by Anna Holley. 

Warming a Snowflake. Virginia Brady Young. Sleeping Giant, 1990.

Wind in the Trees by David Elliott. AHA Books, 1992.

TRANSLATIONS OF HAIKU

A Long Rainy Season: Haiku & Tanka (Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, Vol 1) by Leza Lowitz, Miyuki Aoyama, Akemi Tomioka (Editor). Volume 1 Stone Bridge Press 1989.

An Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki by Harold Gould Henderson, Editor. Paperback - January 1983.

Basho and His Interpreters : Selected Hokku With Commentary by Makoto Ueda, Compiler. Paperback - February 1995.

Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets : Selected Poems 1972-1989. Asian Poetry in Translation by Makoto Ooka, Janine Beichman,Translator. Hardcover - February 1996)

Chiyo-Ni : Woman Haiku Master by Patricia Donegan, Translator. Paperback - September 1998.

Cool Melons-Turn to Frogs! : The Life and Poems of Issa by Matthew Gollub. Hardcover - September 1998.

Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho by Dawnine Spivak. School & Library Binding - April 1997.

Haiku Master Buson by Yuki Sawa, Edith Shiffert. Paperback - June 1978.

Inch by Inch: 45 Haiku by Issa by Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki, Translator. Paperback – December 1999.

Issa : Cup-Of-Tea Poems : Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa by Issa Kobayashi, David G. Lanoue, Translator. Paperback - April 1991.

Lotus Moon : The Poetry of the Buddhist Nun Rengetsu John Stevens. Paperback -June 1994.

Love Haiku: Masajo Suzuki's Lifetime of Love, translated by Lee Gurga & Emiko Miyashita. Brooks Books, August 2000.

Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Basho Matsuo, Nobuyuki Yuasa, Translator.

Narrow Road to the Interior : And Other Writings by Matsuo Basho, Sam Hamill. Shambhala Classics. Paperback - September 2000.

The Narrow Road to Oku by Basho Matsuo, translated by Donald Keene. Paperback – April 1997.

Matsuo Basho by Makoto Ueda. Paperback - May 1983.

Masaoka Shiki by Masaoka Shiki, trans. Burton Watson. Modern Asian Literature Series.

On Love and Barley : Haiku of Basho translated by Lucien Stryk. Hardcover - Paperback - January 1986.

One Man's Moon : 50 Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, Hakuin, Shiki, Santoka by Cid Corman, Translator. Paperback - October 1984.

Oriori no Uta (Poems for All Seasons) Ôoka Makato. Translated by Janine Beichman. Kodansha Bilingual Books, Japan: 2000.

Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear a Hat : The Haiku and Prose of Hosai Ozaki by Hosai Ozaki, Hiroaki Sato, Translator. Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature by Stone Bridge Press, 1995.

Ryokan by Ryokan, Burton Watson, Translator. Translations from the Asian Classics.

Ryôkan: Selected Tanka & Haiku translated by Sanford Goldstein, Shigeo Mizuguchi and Fujisato Kitajima. Kôkodô Co., 1999.

The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa by Issa, translated by Lucien Stryk.

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa (Essential Poets, Vol. 20) by Robert Hass, Editor. Ecco Press.

The Seasons of Time : Tanka Poetry of Ancient Japan by Virginia Olsen Baron. Library Binding - April 1968.

The Sound of Water : Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets by Sam Hamill, Translator, Kaji Aso, Illustrator. Paperback - March 2000.

Temple Dusk: Zen Haiku by Mitsu Suzuki, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Gregory A. Wood, Translator. Parallax Press, July 1992.