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At Shadow Edge: dreams, love, mysteries, madness. Collected poems and prose, 1970 to 2003, by Mike Sabacinski. Read selections at www.amberdragonflypress.com $9.99, ISBN:0-9747210-0-X. Amber Dragonfly Press, PO Box 112, Danville, PA 17821.

Haiku Flowers and Trees by Murasake Sagano. Distributed by Kamogawa Shuppan, Published by Win-kamogawa, Kyoto, Japan, 2005
Marjorie Buettner inBook Reviews LYNX XXI-1,February, 2006

Mirror for the Moon: A Selection of Poems by Saigyô (1118-1190) translated by William R. LaFleur. New York: New Directions, 1978. Out of Print.

Songs of a Mountain Home by Saigyô translated by Burton Watson. New York, Columbia University Press, 1990. Out of Print

Break the Mirror by Nanao Sakaki first published in 1987 by North Point Press. Reissued by Blackberry Books (ISBN 0-942396-75-8 for $9.995, paperback, 128pp.)

Let's Eat Stars (ISBN: 0-942396-76-6 - $11.95, paperback 144pp.) by Nanao Sakaki published in 1997 by Blackberry Books, 617 East Neck Road, Nobleboro, Maine 04555. Nanao Sakaki is the famous wandering sage of Japan who has traveled widely and made many friends in the USA. The earlier poems were written in Japanese and translated into English but later he wrote in English as well. His philosophy can be summed up in this poem which opens Break the Mirror (which has a foreword by Gary Snyder).

If you have time to chatter
Read books
If you have time to read
Walk into the mountain, desert and ocean
If you have time to walk
sing songs and dance
If you have time to dance
Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot

White Letter Poems. Fumi Saito. Translated by Hatsue Kawamura and Jane Reichhold. 100 tanka from Saito's 11 poetry collections. Perfect bound, 8.5 x 5.5, 128 pp., biography. ISBN: 0-944676-23-5. $10.00 ppd. AHA Books. Fumi Saito was the Poet Laureate of Japan in 1997, chosen for her contribution to tanka literature. Her poems spanning the beginning of WWII to the present, bring the unique woman's voice to the changes of the times, not only for her country, but for herself. Greatly beloved by her people, Fumi Saito takes tanka writing to new levels in both Japanese and now in English. The first poem in the book from which the title was taken. Fumi also means 'letter' in Japanese.

a white letter
arriving tomorrow
spring comes
a thin glass also
waiting to be polished

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Saitô, Mokichi, Red Lights: Selected Tanka Sequences from Shakkô translated by Seishi Shinoda and Sanford Goldstein. West Lafayette, Purdue University Press, 1989. Includes Japanese text and romanization. Out of Print.

	THE BODYGUARD. Lewis Sanders and Carl Brennan. From Ardeal Publications, Lewis Sanders, 125 Taylor St., Jackson, TN 38301. Comb-bound, 11" x 8.5", 12 pp., lots of Tibetan line-art. BOOK REVIEW
	Soul of the Seasons: An Anthology of Haiku edited by Ikkoku Santo. ISBN: 4-89008-248-4 printed in Japan. Hardcover with full-color dust jacket, 4.5 x 6 inches, Bilingual with kanji, 90 pp. 700 ¥ Look review

	Tonight They All Dance: 92 Latin & English Haiku by Dirk Sacre(Editor), et al (Paperback October 1999) Special Order Amazon.com Price: $14.95
	Inch by Inch: 45 Haiku by Issa by Issa Kobayashi, Nanao Sakaki (Translator) (Paperback – December 1999) Usually ships in 2-3 days List Price: $12.00 Amazon.com Price: $9.60
	No Other Business Here: A Haiku Correspondence by Steve Sanfield, John Brandi (Paperback- August 1999) Usually ships in 2-3 days Amazon.com Price: $12.00

Candy in the Rain by Edin Saračevič. Haiku Balkan, Kranj, Slovenija: 2001. Perfect bound, 8.5 x 5.5, 76 pages, tri-lingual, US$10.00 ppd. Contact Edin Janeza Puharja 6, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia. Book Review.

String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi translated by Hiroaki Sato Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. (Hardcover - December 1993) (Shaps Library of Translations) Special Order Amazon.com Price: $34.00 Princess Shikishi (d. 1201), was the female poet most admired after Komachi and Izumi in the era of the court poetry. The "one-line" translations need the abundant notes to help readers to identify the poems as tanka.

One Hundred Frogs : From Matsuo Basho to Allen Ginsberg by Hiroaki Sato.1 Edition Paperback, 127 pages. List: $7.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $7.15 -- You Save: $0.80(10%) Published by Weatherhill. Publication date: May 1,1995. Dimensions (in inches): 4.93 x 7.08 x .33. ISBN: 0834803356. Availability: This item usually shipped within 2-3 days.

Don't be confused. Sato also wrote a book titled One Hundred Frogs which contains a lot information about renga (and is now considered by Amazon.com to be hard-to-find). The book offered here is just ONE chapter of that book. If you are interested in seeing how many people could translate Basho's famous frog haiku into how many different variations and see a too cute little painted frog jump when you flip the pages, you might like this book in spite of its inflated price.

Basho's Narrow Road : Spring & Autumn Passages : Narrow Road to the Interior and the Renga Sequence : A Farewell Gift to Sora : Two Works by Matsuo Basho, translated by Hiroaki Sato (Paperback) Usually ships in 2-3 days List Price: $15.00 Amazon.com Price: $12.00

Breeze Through Bamboo (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Saiko Ema, Hiroaki Sato (Paperback) Usually ships in 2-3 days Amazon.com Price: $17.50

From the Country of Eight Islands by Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson (Paperback) Usually ships in 24 hours Amazon.com Price: $22.00

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) (Paperback) Usually ships in 24 hours Amazon.com Price: $12.00

Howling at the Moon and Blue by Hagiwara Sakutaro, Hiroaki Sato(Translator) (Paperback) Not Yet Published -- On Order List Price: $11.95 Amazon.com Price: $9.56

Sleeping Sinning Falling by Mutsuo Takahashi, trans. Hiroaki Sato (Paperback - July 1992) Special Order Amazon.com Price: $8.95

Ten Japanese Poets by Hiroaki Sato Out of Print

And the Cat, Too. Kazuo Sato. Saddle-stapled, 5 x 4, 32 pp., $2.50 ppd. AHA Books, 1989. ISBN:0-944676-74-X. Merit Book Award Haiku Society of America.

Kazuo Sato, Professor at Waseda University and Director of the International Division of The Haiku Museum in Tokyo, presents over 40 of his haiku written about cats which have been charmingly translated by Jack Stamm and illustrated by Vincent Cheng.

The year's first inkstone
I begin by first of all
kicking out the cat.

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Australian Poems - In His Own Words by Allan James Saywell. Trade paper back, fully illustrated in color, 8" x 5", $15.00 Order from author: Allane James Saywell, Unit 9 / 22 Hill Street, Tweed Head's NSW 2485, Australia.

My Asakusa – Coming of Age in Pre-war Tokyo, a memoir by Sadako Sawamura translated by Norman E. Stafford and Yasuhiro Kawamura. Tuttle: 2000. Trade paperback, 8" x 5", 270 pages with glossary of Japanese terms. ISBN: 0-8048-2135-6. US$16.95. Book Review

Buzzes & Flutters by Barry J Schieber (Hardcover) Average Customer Review: Usually ships in 24 hours Amazon.com Price: $22.00

Drips Gurgles Chirps by Barry J. Schieber (Paperback) Usually ships in 24 hours Amazon.com Price: $25.00

Curve. John Sheirer. Tiny Poems Press, c/o John Sheirer, 170 Elm St., Enfield, CT 06082. Saddle-stapled, 4.25" x 3.5", 16 pp., $1.00. BOOK REVIEW

TURNING MY CHAIR. Pat Shelley. Press Here, 1997. Perfect bound with special papers, 7 x 10", 64 pp., $15.00. Press Here, pob 4401., Foster City, CA 94044. BOOK REVIEW

The Haiku Funbook. Elaine Sherlund. Saddle-stapled, 32 pp., 4 x 11, $2.00 ppd. Discounts for classes. Recommended for grades 3-8. AHA Books, 1990. ISBN:0-944676-73-1.

Elaine Sherlund has written and illustrated this delightful workbook for children of all ages. Each page is designed so her haiku and brief commentary leave space for the child to respond with his or her own haiku and drawing. Over 600 copies of The Haiku Funbook were used in Sonoma and Mendocino County Schools in the past two years.; a cloud
swirling into mist
gulls; *Out-of-print

Colors of haiku by Helen J. Sherry Out of Print

A Breath of Haiku by Helen J. Sherry. Perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5, 98 pages, full color cover of a photograph by Ed Sherry, will ink illustrations by the author. Price: USA and Canada $12.00 ppd., elsewhere $14.00 ppd. ISBN: 0922273-02-2. Available from Chocho Books, 11929 Caminito Corriente, San Diego, CA 92128. Book Review.

Masaoka Shiki (Modern Asian Literature Series) by Masaoka Shiki, et al (Hardcover) Usually ships in 24 hours Amazon.com Price: $50.00

If Someone Asks. . . by The Shiki-Kinen Museum English Volunteers. Published by the Matsuyama Municipal Shiki-Kinen Museum, 1-30 Dogo Koen, Matsuyama City, 790-0857 . Perfect bound, 8.5 x5.5, 76 pages, illustrations, a biography of Shiki’s life, 124 haiku in English and Japanese. Book Review.

Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry by Edith Shiffert (Translator), Yuki Sawa(Translator) (Paperback – January 1985) Usually ships in 2-3 days Amazon.com Price: $12.95 Book is divided into sections of free verse, tanka, and haiku. The 17-page tanka section contains 2-4 poems per page, from nine poets.

The Light Comes Slowly - Short poems from Kyoto by Edith Shiffert. Illustrations by Kohka Saito. Katsura Press: 1997. Trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 100 pp., $14.95. Katsura Press, POB 275, Lake Oswego, OR 97034. Book Review Amazon.com Price: $14.95

Haiku Master Buson by Yuki Sawa, Edith Shiffert (Paperback - June 1978) Back Ordered Amazon.com Price: $9.95

The Holy Letters by Nancy Shiffrin. Paper back, 7.5" x 5", 90 pp., $11.99, ISBN: 1-58898-065-0. Order from Nancy Shiffrin, pob 1506, Santa Monica, CA 90406 or contact the author. This is Title No. 65 at greatunpublished.com. Check them out.

A Zen Forest : Sayings of the Masters by Soiku Shigematsu (Translator) (Paperback - January 1993) Out Of Print

Zen Harvest: Japanese Folk Zen Sayings : Haiku, Dodoitsu, and Tanka by Soiku Shigematsu(Translator), Robert Aitken (Paperback - August 1988) Out Of Print

Gendai haijinden: Meiji Taishåo Shåowa no kyoshåotachi, sono seikatsu to geijutsu no subete by Yoshijiråo Shima Out of Print

The Bridge of Dreams : A Poetics of the 'Tale of Genji' by Haruo Shirane (Paperback - July 1987) Usually ships in 2-3 days Amazon.com Price: $17.95

Glimpse From My Window by Jacqui Smith. Book of my poems. Pages - 16.Size: small. Binding: paperback. Art on cover only. Published in 1996. Price: 11.00. Contact addr: 2906 Nottingham Ln, MIssouri City TX 77459 Email addr: fmjsmith@worldnet.att.net

Pocket Poems #4 – Haiku Poems. Edited by Yvonne Hardenbrook and Larry Smith. Bottom Dog Press: 1999. Saddle-stapled, 4 ¼ x 5 ½ , 42 pp., $3.00. Order from Bottom Dog Press, c/o Firelands College, Huron, Ohio, 44839. BOOK REVIEW

Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho by Dawnine Spivak, et al (School & Library Binding - April 1997) Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com Price: $12.80

The poem beyond my reach: a book of haiku by Selma Stefanile Out of Print

Lotus Moon : The Poetry of the Buddhist Nun Rengetsu John Stevens (Paperback -June 1994) Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $7.95 Amazon.com Price: $7.15

A Chime of Windbells: A Year of Japanese Haiku in English Verse by Harold Stewart (Hardcover – June 1969) Out Of Print

Bound by Red Clay by Neca Stoller. DeeMar Communications, 6325-9 Falls of Neuse Rd, Suite 320, Raleigh, NC 27615. Perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5, 75 pp., $14.95 ppd. Book Review

SINGING THE SNAKE - Poems from the Western Desert by Billy Marshall Stoneking. Subject: Poems about Aboriginal Australia from "one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Australian literature." Pages: 100. Size: Standard. Binding: perfect bound paperback. Illustrated by Tutama Tjapangarti. 1990. Price: $20. signed by author. Contact addr: PO Box 1321, Woodstock, NY 12498 Email addr: stone@ulster.net

Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey by Clark Strand (Paperback - July 1998) Out Of Print

Song of the Toad. Earle J. Stone. California: Paige Publications, 1989. Choice of paperback or hard cover, 144 pp., 550 haiku and 550 illustrations by the author. Glossary of terms. Paperback ISBN: 0-938699-04-0 is $10.00 ppd. and hardcover ISBN: 0-938699-02-4 is $15.00 ppd.

Earle Stone's depth of understanding of Chinese and Japanese art (he was an appraiser and connoisseur of antiques, as well as artist/writer) gives his absolutely traditional haiku the ring of authenticity as well as showcases of humanness and foil for his celebrated sense of humor. Arranged according to seasons, five to a page, Stone's haiku are not only works of art in themselves, but to read them is an education in Oriental lifestyle.

A stone boat sailing
leaves no wake on sandy waves
in Daitokuji

*Sorry, out-of-print.

SINGING THE SNAKE - Poems from the Western Desert by Billy Marshall Stoneking. Perfect bound paperback, pages: 100, illustrated by Tutama Tjapangarti. Printed 1990. Price: $20. signed by author. Contact Billy Marshall Stoneking, PO Box 1321 Woodstock, NY 12498 Email addr: stone@ulster.net
Poems about Aboriginal Australia from "one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Australian literature."

Paper Lantern edited by Ebba Story. Haiku by Donna Claire Gallagher, Lynne Leach, Zane Parks, and Tom Tico. $5.00. Autumns Press Books, 478 Guerrero Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. Make checks payable to Haiku Poets of Northern California.

Cage of Fireflies: Modern Japanese Haiku by Lucien Stryk (Editor) (Hardcover -December 1993) Out Of Stock Our Price: $24.95; (Paperback -October 1993) Out Of Stock Our Price: $11.95

Penguin Book of Zen Poetry compiled and translated by Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto Out of Print

And Still Birds Sing : New & Collected Poems by Lucien Stryk (Hardcover - February 1998) Usually ships in 2-3 days Our Price: $39.95 (Paperback - February 1998) Usually ships in 24 hours Amazon.com Price: $19.95

acorn book of contemporary haiku, acorn book company, England, 2000, edited by Lucien Stryk and Kevin Bailey. 173 pp, 5 x 7 inches, perfect bound, £ 6.99,-. Order from acorn book company, P.O. Box 191, Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 SYQ, England. Book Reviews

The Dumpling Field : Haiku of Issa by Issa, Lucien Stryk translator (Paperback - August 1991) Usually ships in 2-3 days List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com Price: $11.96

On Love and Barley : Haiku of Basho translated by Lucien Stryk (Hardcover - February 1986) Usually ships in 1-2 weeks List Price: $23.00 Amazon.com Price: $18.40(Paperback - January 1986) Usually ships in 2-3 days List Price: $9.95 Amazon.com Price: $8.95

Triumph of the Sparrow : Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi translated by Lucien Stryk (Paperback) Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $13.00 Amazon.com Price: $10.40

Zen : Poems, Prayers, Sermons, Anecdotes, Interviews by Lucien and Takashi Ikemoto Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto(Translator) (Hardcover - April 1982) Usually ships in 2-3 days Amazon.com Price: $18.95

Zen Poems of China & Japan : The Crane's Bill by Lucien Stryk (Translator (An Evergreen Book) (Paperback - February 1988) Usually ships in 24 hours List Price: $12.00 Amazon.com Price: $9.60

Zen Poetry : Let the Spring Breeze Enter by Lucien Stryk (Translator), et al (Paperback - February 1995) Usually ships in 1-2 weeks List Price: $13.00 Amazon.com Price: $10.40

Heartland Poets of the Midwest by Lucien Stryk (Paperback - June 1967) Special Order Amazon.com Price: $15.00

Of Pen and Ink and Paper Scraps by Lucien Stryk (Hardcover - July 1989) Special Order Amazon.com Price: $21.95

Sunlit Jar -- Four Seasons of Haiku by Carmen Sterba. Radish Series # 30 (hand-bound haiku series) edited by Wim Lofvers, 't Hage Woord, Rijisterdijk 25, 8574 VW Bakhuizen The Netherlands, Published 2002.
Reviewed by Marjorie Buettner in Book Reviews LYNX XX-2 June, 2005.

Temple Dusk : Zen Haiku by Mitsu Suzuki, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Gregory A. Wood (Translator). Paperback. List: $15.00 -- Amazon.com Price: $13.50 -- You Save: $1.50(10%) Published by Parallax Pr. Publication date: July 1992. Dimensions (in inches): 7.97 x 5.41 x .57. ISBN: 0938077481. Availability: This item usually shipped within 2-3 days.

My Shadow Doing Something. George Swede. Tiny Poems Press, Enfield, Connecticut: 1997. Saddle-stapled, 8.5" x 5.5", 24 pp. $5.00. Contact Tiny Poems Press, c/o John Sheirer, 170 Elm St., Enfield, CT 06082. BOOK REVIEWS

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