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Lee Gurga. A Mouse Pours Out Lee Gurga's first collection of rural American haiku including the one-line title poem. |
Virgil Hutton. The Hawk's Vision
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Wally Swist. Sugaring Buckets
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Lequita Watkins. Dark With Stars A sequence of eighteen haiku for her son, John, who died before his twentieth summer. |
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Edward Tick. On Sacred Mountain A sequence of haiku based on nightmare images and related experiences of Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. |
Peggy Heinrich. A Patch of Grass A collection of 24 warm and personal haiku of everyday life. |
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R.G. Rader. S/He The themes of presence, separation, and remembrance run throughout these haiku of love. |
Margarita Engle. Smoketree In these desert haiku, the past always lingers, but the present is engaging because of the contrast in the panoramic and the immediate. |
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Alexis Rotella. Tuning the Lily A fresh voice which blends personal emotions with surprising perspectives of nature. |
Elizabeth Searle Lamb. 39 Blossoms Thirty-nine haiku from around the world, but all at home in the presence of Elizabeth Searle Lamb's masterful word-craft. She teaches us that art is not beyond us, it involves us. |
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Carl Mayfield. Sandia Mountain Sequence A sequence of mountain viewing, moutain hiking, and mountain being haiku. Leave your cameras at home. |
George Swede. All of Her Shadows A thematic sequence on marriage, family, and middle-aging. Swede's haiku continually surprise us (and tickle us) with truths we have faced in our own mirrors. |
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Ruth Yarrow. No One Sees the Stems
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Emily Romano. Pear Blossoms Drift A series of traditional haiku related to bereavement, widowhood, and aloneness. |
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Richard Kostelanetz. Turfs/Fields/Pitches/Arenas An experiment in associational poems, consisting of four words placed in the corners of the page which invite the reader to make connections and links by their own associations. |
Al Ortolani. Slow Stirring Spoon
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George Swede. This Morning's Mockingbird A collection of humorous haiku by the master of psychological insight. |
Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg. Fair Are Fowl A thematic collection of haiku on birds from a devotely Christian perspective. |
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LeRoy Gorman. Cutout Moons Senryu and haiku conveying a wide range of perspectives and states of mind beneath the ever-constant moon. |
Barbara McCoy. A Christmas Death A sequence of haiku for the survivors, who will miss the loved one every Christmas. |
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Peggy Willis Lyles. Red Leaves in the Air "Her poems are characterized by a vital, human quality not often found in the work of her contemporaries." --Chuck Brickley |
Raymond Roseliep. Firefly in My Eyecup "Raymond Roseliep is the John Donne of Western haiku. . . . the wit, the conceptual nature of his haiku, and the tension between the sacred and the profane . . ." --Chuck Brickley |
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Alan Gettis. Snowed In A sequence of haiku from a snowed-in weekend in a New England log cabin. Alan Gettis has taken advantage of this perfect chance to slow down to the speed of haiku. |
Gary Hotham. Off and On Rain A sequence of haiku from a single day, in and out of the rain. |
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Marlene Mountain. Moment/Moment Moments Twenty-one surprising visual haiku. "The stress of visual haiku is on the isness of things and our own creating emotional response to isness." --Raymond Roseliep |
Gary Hines. Roadsigns
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A collection of Kansas haiku written during various cross-country trips. 
Twenty nature haiku from rural western Massachusetts where Wally and his wife, Donna, have made their home. 
Ruth Yarrow's haiku convey a special gentleness towards nature both within and around us. In this collection she explores the perception of nothingness, things unseen. 
A sequence focused "on that corner of the world that is the neighborhood diner. The waitress, the fry cook, the customers, the poet himself stirring his coffee" —Rod Willmot 
A sequence of senryu from a cross-country road trip from Arizona to Indiana.