A Long
Rainy Season
Haiku & Tanka
Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry
Volume 1
edited by Leza Lowitz, Miyuki Aoyama, and
Akemi Tomioka
The first collection of contemporary
Japanese women's verse in English translation. Fifteen poets write on
love, motherhood, daughterhood, politics, body parts, nature, corruption.
A companion to Other Side River: Free Verse.
"Shows how passion, ideas,
and the broad range of human experience can be held in brief poems of
large reach--a great gift for us all."--Jane Hirshfield
A Long Rainy Season
was awarded the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award for overall design and
editorial excellence in Fiction/Poetry by Publishers Marketing Association.