The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 1996, edited by Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Editorial Staff

Description

Awarded the 1996 Merit Book Award for Best Anthology by the Haiku Society of America!

This is the book that started it all: the first volume of what
has become the most awarded serial book in the history of the genre. 206 poems, 15 linked pieces, and 6 critical essays on the reading, writing and study of the genre as selected by 11 of the best haiku poets from around the world.

deep silence
   the orphaned nestlings
   this third morning
     — Kay F. Anderson

          condom his sperm never really mine
               — Janice M. Bostok

                    raking aside leaves
                    on the backyard pond
                    I release the moon
                         — H. F. Noyes

ISBN: 0-9657818-0-1
Pages: 160
Size: 8.25″ x 5.5″
Binding: perfect softbound