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The first of its kind in English, A Dictionary of Haiku carries on the tradition of Japanese saijiki with some modern innovations. Over 5,000 haiku by Jane Reichhold are arranged in the five seasons with the seven categories containing over 1000 different subjects, each with one or more haiku illuminating it. This beautiful maroon and gold book will become a haiku reference book as well as an anthology of modern haiku and haiku sequence experimentation. Out-of-print but is available to read or download at A Dictionary of Haiku.

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An elegy to the place the Gualala River flows through the various realms of the region: sea, shore, redwood forests, rivers, mountains, skies, and people at home to focus the collected haiku of a tiny seaside village. Each section is headed by an informative and lyrical introduction followed by the haiku. This is a very professional community cooperative effort combining paint, poems, and photos by folks age five to 83. Biographies of each author or artist lets the reader also get acquainted personally with those who have chosen to live and create in a very special place.

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The years of writing haiku, renga and tanka are clearly evident as Reichhold tells these 21 tales of mystery and enlightenment. Teaching tales from other realms; this is not a book you would expect from her, but upon reading it you can hear her vision.

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Great excitement comes with this book, the first tanka anthology in English with poets from seventeen countries represented with their very best works. The pioneers of tanka writing are all gathered to show how this form is being adapted into English. A thrill to read how a form changes the way these poets are seeing their worlds. Introduction by Jane Reichhold brings both history and how-to of tanka.

In this newest book by Werner Reichhold haiku, tanka and renga are integrated to build a new structure for poetic language. Over fifty longer poems demonstrate Reichhold's imagery with innovation and vision.

On a yellow shoe
the sun enters a wooden house.
Sleepless footprint,
she walks the way
a bird egg curves

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Beautifully produced, this unique combination of art catalog and haiku book is receiving the highest praise. Combining Reichhold's unique drawings with his plans for installations and haiku printed on gray, textured paper and perfect bound in a silver cover, this book adds a new concept to haiku books.

Gong
thunder and lightning
shaking hands

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Werner Reichhold has expanded the beginnings made in Handshake into a masterpiece of haiku, photomontage, and drawings. Energy linked between the haiku and artwork to interact with the reader.

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Werner Reichhold continues the themes of multi-layered haiku and tanka, joining together into sequences and leaping out of photomontage images begun in Tidalwave. In keeping with the title, many of the poems are also translated into French, German, Italian, Hebrew, and Arabic. A big book for world-wide journeys.

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In this book, text and picture are a two-fold event. You are invited to experiment with the energies released by looking at a collage juxtaposed to poetry. Opposite methods are used with the intention the reader / viewer may enjoy putting them together and find out what the "collaboration of languages" activates or stimulates.

orphaned honey
tongue on a journey's
licking lips

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