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Frogpond 36.3 • 2013

Museum of Haiku
Literature Award

Haiku & Senryu

Essay on Getting Started

Haibun

Haiku Sequence

Renku

Book Reviews

From the Editors

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A Five-Balloon Morning by Charles Trumbull

Charles Trumbull. A Five-Balloon Morning. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Red Mountain Press, 2013, unpag., 5.5 x 5.5, perfect softbound. ISBN 978-0-9855031-3-0. US$16.95 + tax and shipping from the publisher at <http://www.redmountainpress.us>.

reviewed by Marian Olson, Santa Fe, New Mexico

<A Five-Balloon Morning>
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Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years

Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns (eds.). Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years. New York, NY: Norton & Co., 2013, 368 pp., hardcover, 5 x 7.25. ISBN 978-0-393-23947-8. US$23.95.

reviewed by Lee Gurga, Champaign, Illinois

<Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years>
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A Zodiac by Paul Pfleuger, Jr.

Paul Pfleuger, Jr. A Zodiac. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2013, unpag., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.5. ISBN 978-1-936848-18-8, US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

reviewed by Francine Banwarth, Dubuque, Iowa

<A Zodiac by Paul Pfleuger, Jr.>
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Anita Krumins. Susurrus. Toronto, Ontario: Inspress, 2013, 56 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.5. ISBN 978-0-9881179-1-4. US$10 from <http://inspress-net.webs.com>.

Tom Smith. Morningstar. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2013, unpag., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.25. ISBN 978-1-936848-25-6. US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

Tom Clausen. Laughing to Myself. Rochester, NY: Free Food Press, 2013, unpag., perfect softbound, 5.25 x 8.25. No ISBN. US$12.50 (includes shipping) from <http://www.freefoodpress.com>.

Jim Westenhaver. Prognoses. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2013, 64 pp., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.5. ISBN: 978-1-936848-26-3. US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

William Hart. Cloud Eats Mountain. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2013, unpag., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.25. ISBN 978-1-936848-24-9. US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

Caroline Giles Banks. The Clay Jar. Minneapolis, MN: Wellington-Giles Press, 2013, 84 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.5. ISBN 978-0-9645254-4-3. US$12; $4 shipping. Contact: <wellingtongilespress@gmail.com>.

Marsh Muirhead. Her Cold Martini. Bemidji, MN: The Island Journal Press, 2013, 46 pp., perfect softbound, 5 x 8. ISBN 978-0-9814995-4-3. US$9. Contact: <mgmuirhead@midco.net>.

Brett Brady. A Translucent Moon. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2013, 30 pp., stapled, 5.25 x 8.25. ISBN 978- 1-62229-264-6. US$12 from <http://www.finishinglinepress.com>.

Steven Carter. Paper Doors. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2013, 210 pp., perfect softbound, 4.25 x 6.5. ISBN 978-1-936848-29-4. US$12 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

George Swede. embryo: eye poems. Toronto, Ontario: Inspress, 2013, 60 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.5. ISBN 978-0-9881179-2-1. US$20. Contact A. Zarins at <azarins3@ gmail.com>.

Richard Gilbert. The Disjunctive Dragonfly: A New Approach to English-Language Haiku. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2008, revised and updated 2013, 132 pp., perfect softbound, 5.25 x 7.75. ISBN 978-1-936848-30-0. US$17 from <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

Jane Reichhold. Naked Rock. Gualala, CA: AHA Books, 2013, 71 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.5. ISBN 978-094467-61-03. US$12 from Amazon.com.

Klaus-Dieter Wirth. Im Sog der Stille / In the Wake of Silence. Hamburg, Germany: Hamburger Haiku Verlag, 2013, 240 pp., perfect softbound, 5.75 x 8.25. ISBN 978-3-937257- 72-3. €16.90 from the publisher at <http://www.haiku.de>.

Paul Friedrich. a goldfinch instant. Macao: Association of Stories in Macao, 2012, 164 pp., perfect softbound, 4.75 x 8.5. ISBN 978-99965-42-7. No price given; inquire from the publisher at <macaustories@yahoo.com>.

Gary Hotham. Our Waves Meet the Ocean Waves. Greenriver, VT: Longhouse, 2013, unpag., letterpress/accordion folded, 3 x 4.5. No ISBN. US$12 from the publisher at <www. LonghousePoetry.com>.

Michael Kriesel. Whale of Stars. Buffalo, NY: Sunnyoutside, 2012, unpag., letterpress/hand sewn, 4 x 4.25. ISBN 978-1- 934513-33-0. US$20 from <http://www.sunnyoutside.com>.

Miriam Sagan. All My Beautiful Failures. Santa Fe, NM: Miriam’s Well, 2013, limited edition, 68 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 5.5. No ISBN. Free for the cost of shipping, US$2.50, from the poet at 626 Kathryn St., Santa Fe, NM 85705.

Elliot Nicely. Tangled Shadows: Senryu & Haiku. Pittsboro, NC: Rosenberry Books, 2013, unpag., handbound cardcovers with hemp binding, 5.75 x 8.75. No ISBN. US$8.75 from <http://www.rosenberrybooks.com>.

Lenard D. Moore and Dave Russo, eds. The Stone House: An Anthology of Haiku from Bolin Brook Farm. Pittsboro, NC: Rosenberry Books, 2012, unpag., handmade, hardcover with hemp binding, 5.75 x 8.75. No ISBN. US$23.95 hardcover, US$12.95 softcover, from <http:www.rosenberrybooks.com>.

Jeffrey Woodward. Evening in the Plaza. Detroit, MI: Tour- nesol Books, 2013, 94 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.5. ISBN 978-061583-47-57. US$12.95 from Amazon.com.

Peter Butler. A Piece of Shrapnel: A Haibun Collection. Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK: Hub Editions, 2012, 38 pp., 5 x 8.5. ISBN 978-1-930746-96-7. UK£5.75 from the author at <peppercornpoets@aol.com>.

Glenn G. Coats. Snow on the Lake. Prospect, VA: Pineola Publishing, 2013, 89 pp., perfect softbound, 5 x 8. ISBN 978- 061579-91-17. US$12 from online booksellers.

Michael Ketchek. The Places in Between. Rochester, NY: Free Food Press, 2013, 46 pp., hand sewn, 6 x 8.5. No ISBN. US$7.50 + $0.50 shipping, from <http://www.freefoodpress.com>.

Jim Kacian & the Red Moon Editorial Staff, eds. Nothing in the Window: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku. 2012, 214 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.25. ISBN 978-1-946848-20-1 <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

Jim Kacian, Bruce Ross, and Ken Jones, eds. Contemporary Haibun: Volume 14. 2013, 112 pp., perfect softbound, 5.25 x 8.25. ISBN 978-1-936848-20-1 <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts, eds. A New Resonance 8: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku. 2013, 175 pp., perfect softbound, 5.5 x 8.25. ISBN 978-1-946848-22-5 <http://www.redmoonpress.com>.

briefly reviewed by Michele Root-Bernstein, East Lansing, Michigan
& Francine Banwarth, Dubuque, Iowa

<Briefly Reviewed>
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