Product Description: In David G. Lanoue's fanciful, comic second novel, Laughing Buddha , anything can happen--and plenty does. The narrator from contemporary New Orleans journeys to the Old Japan of "geisha, samurai, and mad, moonstruck poets" on an undercover mission to solve a literary mystery: Why did the poet Buck-Teeth stop writing haiku after a certain lunar eclipse, and what could be done to help him recover his inspiration? Disguised as a Buddhist priest, bumbling through time and space while avoiding the ninja weapons of the evil critic Nakamura; our hero discovers that Buck-Teeth's writer's block is no mere academic problem but a grave matter with lives and poetry hanging in the balance...read more

Product Description: 800 of the best tanka in English by 68 of its finest practitioners

Product Description: This seminal volume is the first collection of contemporary haiku from the war-torn Balkans available in English. Over 2500 poems in 23 languages were considered and translated to arrive at this volume featuring 125 poets and nearly 200 poems...read more

Product Description: The fifth volume of the annual collection of the best writing in the haiku world from around the world compiled into a single volume. Includes haiku, senryu, haibun, renku, articles and essays about the world’s shortest form of poetry.

Product Description: Book by Kacian, Jim