Haiku Books To Read
Haiku Books To Read
Haiku Books To Read
Addiss, Stephen. The Art of Haiku: Its History Through Poems and Paintings of the Japanese
Masters. Boston & London: Shambala, 2012.
Aitken, Robert. A Zen Wave: Bashô’s Haiku & Zen. New York and Tokyo: John Weatherhill, Inc.,
1978.
Amann, Eric. The Wordless Poem: A Study of Zen in Haiku. Toronto, Ontario: The Haiku Society
of Canada, 1978.
Barthes, Roland. Translated by Richard Howard. Empire of Signs. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
Originally published in French, 1970.
Bashō, Matsuo. Translated by Jane Reichhold. Bashō: the Complete Haiku. New York: Kodansha
International, 2008.
Blyth, R.H., Translator. A History of Haiku: Volume 1, From the Beginnings to Issa. Tokyo, Japan:
Hokuseido Press, 1963. Seventh printing, 1976.
Blyth, R.H., Translator. A History of Haiku: Volume 2, From Issa to the Present. Tokyo, Japan:
Hokuseido Press, 1964. Fifth printing, 1976.
Blyth, R.H., Translator. Japanese Humour. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Travel Bureau, 1957.
Blyth, R.H., Translator. Japanese Life and Character in Senryu. Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido Press,
1960. First printing, 1960.
Blyth, R.H. Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics. Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido Press, 1942.
Buson, Yosa. Edited and translated by Edith Marcombe Shiffert and Yuki Sawa. Haiku Master
Buson: Translations from the Writings of Yosa Buson—Poet and Artist—With Related Materials.
Union City, CA: Heian International, 1978.
Carter, Steven D. Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Bashō. New York: Columbia
University Press, 2011.
Dayton, David, Editor. A Roseliep Retrospective: Poems & Other Words By and About Raymond
Roseliep. Ithaca, NY: Alembic Press, 1980. Signed by Raymond Roselieip.
Donegan, Patricia and Yoshie Ishibashi. Chiyo-ni Woman Haiku Master. Rutland, VT: Charles E.
Tuttle Company, 1998.
Donegan, Patricia. Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart. Boston,
MA: Shambala, 2008.
Henderson, Harold G. Haiku in English. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1967.
Higginson, William J. The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World. New York: Kodansha
International, 1996.
Higginson, William J. Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac. New York: Kodansha
International, 1996.
Higginson, William J. Itadakimasu: Essays on Haiku and Senryu in English. Kanona, NY: J & C
Transcripts, 1971.
Hoyt, Clement. Storm of Stars: The Collected Poems and Essays of Clement Hoyt (1906-1970).
Baton Rouge, LA: Green World, 1976.
Kacian, Jim, Editor. Frogpond XX Supplement 1997: The Second Haiku International Association—
Haiku Society of America Joint Haiku Conference, April 19-20, 1997 in Tokyo. New York: Haiku
Society of America, 1997.
Kato, Shuichi. Translated by David Chibbet. A History of Japanese Literature: The First Thousand
Years. New York: Kodansha International, 1981.
Kawamoto, Koji. The Poetics of Japanese Verse. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2000. Originally
published in Japanese as Nihon Shiika no Dentô by Iwanami Shoten in 1991.
Keene, Donald. The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masoaka Shiki. New York, NY: Columbia
University Press, 2013.
Lanoue, David G. Pure Land Haiku: The Art of Priest Issa. Reno, NV & Tokyo: Buddhist Books
International, 2005.
Lucas, Martin. Stepping Stones: A Way Into Haiku. Essex, UK: British Haiku Society, 2007.
Miner, Earl. Translated by Earl Miner and Robert H. Brower. An Introduction to Japanese Court
Poetry. Standford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1968.
Miner, Earl. Editor and translator. Japanese Poetic Diaries. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 1969.
Missias, A.C., Editor. In Due Season: A Discussion of the Role of Kigo in English-language Haiku.
Philadelphia, PA: Redfox Press, 2000.
Modern Haiku Association [Gendai Haiku Kyôkai]. Proceedings of the First International
Contemporary Haiku Symposium. Tokyo: Gendai Haiku Kyôkai, 1999.
Sato, Hiroaki. One Hundred Frogs from Renga to Haiku to English. New York: Weatherhill, 1983.
Shirane, Haruo and Tomi Suzuki, Editors. Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and
Japanese Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
Shirane, Haruo. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashô.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Spiess, Robert. A Year’s Speculations on Haiku. Madison, WI: Modern Haiku, 1995.
Stryk, Lucien. Encounter With Zen: Writings on Poetry and Zen. Athens, OH: Swallow Press and
Ohio University Press, 1981.
Swede, George. The Modern English Haiku. Toronto, Ontario: Columbine Editions, 1981.
Tohta, Kaneko. The Future of Haiku. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2011. Translated from the
Japanese by the Kon Nichi Translation Group, Kumamoto University.
Tohta, Kaneko. Ikemonofûei: Poetic Composition on Living Things. Winchester, VA: Red Moon
Press, 2011. Translated from the Japanese by the Kon Nichi Translation Group, Kumamoto
University.
Ueda, Makoto, Bashô and His Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary. Standford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1992.
Ueda, Makoto. Literary and Art Theories in Japan. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, the
University of Michigan, 1991.
Ueda, Makoto, Matsuo Bashô. Tokyo & New York: Kodansha International Ltd, 1982.
Ueda, Makoto, The Path of Flowering Thorn: The Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson. Standford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1998.
Williams, Paul O. The Nick of Time: Essays on Haiku Aesthetics. Foster City, CA: Press Here,
2001.
Yasuda, Kenneth. The Japanese Haiku: Its Essential Nature, History, and Possibilities in English,
with Selected Examples. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957.
Zheng, Jianqing, Editor. The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku. Jackson,
MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011.