The New Pond:
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Emiko Miyashita. The New Pond: An English-language Haiku Anthology. Tokyo: Hokumeisha Press. June, 2002. Perfect Bound, (6" X 8") 128 pages. Brooks Books is pleased to process purchase orders for this book from readers in North America. US and Canada price includes air shipping from Japan. The translations are done in two layers, first as a direct translation
into Japanese prose, and then in a suggestive 5-7-5 haiku style
in Japanese. Thus obeying a rule of "Show, don't tell!"
The English haiku contains far more information than we can
put into 5-7-5 Japanese syllables. The suggestiveness was the method
used to convert the direct translation into the 5-7-5 in this anthology. Sample haiku: after ringing it up Carl Patrick |
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warm spring breeze George Swede
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nine one one Mykel Board |
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The book has a preface/introduction given by Dr Akito Arima wrote the introduction, and the book features essays in Japanese on:, and my essays cover: monarch butterfly and the whale watching—Asilomar Retreat of
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society in January, 2002 haiku reading in San Jose Main Library --about the reading on January
16th, 2002; the popularity of reading in the New Pond a wonderful relationship between cancer patients and haiku --Kay
Anderson's haiku class for the cancer patients in February, 2002 happy bags and chapbooks —Hiroko Minami's hand-made happy bags and Leatrice Lifshitz's "PURPLE SO DEEP…"; chapbooks in the New Pond
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Bob Spiess' promise—phone calls to Bob during his last few weeks
and his promise; Modern Haiku Cor's hat—about Cor Van Den Heuvel's hat that I borrowed at
HNA 2001 in Boston dojin—consideration on a term, 'dojin'; Patricia J. Machmiller
and Jerry Ball as the official dojin of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
in the New Pond home stay—my record of home staying at Lee Gurga's, Charlie
Rossiter's, Claire Gallagher's, Patricia Machmiller's, Maggie Chula's
homes reality and imaginary—how the understanding of haiku has evolved in the new pond and in myself |
