OUCH Senryu That Bite

<p>OUCH: Senryu That Bite - Alexis Rotella has been writing haiku, senryu and tanka since her late 20's. She is one of the most accomplished American writers and is able to write seemingly effortlessly in all three genres. She discovered haiku while working on an undergraduate thesis on zen at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Rotella is probably most well known for her senryu or psychological (serious) haiku. Her book LOOKING FOR A PRINCE (1991) took the haiku world by storm. Cor van den Heuvel calls Rotella "the witty, tender, funny, sad, sometimes MERCILESS younger sister of haiku . . . the . . . often-times absurd creature somersaulting through the universe somewhere between the angels and Donald Duck!" When asked where she gets her talent for senryu, she remarks, "From my father. He was a born psychologist who didn't mince words. He saw right through people. No one could pretend around him."</p>

Ouch Senryu That Bite

Literature & Fiction

Rotella, Alexis, M.D.

Poetry

Modern English Tanka Press

OUCH: Senryu That Bite - Alexis Rotella has been writing haiku, senryu and tanka since her late 20's. She is one of the most accomplished American writers and is able to write seemingly effortlessly in all three genres. She discovered haiku while working on an undergraduate thesis on zen at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Rotella is probably most well known for her senryu or psychological (serious) haiku. Her book LOOKING FOR A PRINCE (1991) took the haiku world by storm. Cor van den Heuvel calls Rotella "the witty, tender, funny, sad, sometimes MERCILESS younger sister of haiku . . . the . . . often-times absurd creature somersaulting through the universe somewhere between the angels and Donald Duck!" When asked where she gets her talent for senryu, she remarks, "From my father. He was a born psychologist who didn't mince words. He saw right through people. No one could pretend around him."

<p>This book is a tanka treasure chest, filled with nearly five hundred poems by the acknowledged master of the genre, Sanford Goldstein. Not only has Goldstein, with his translating partners, made the classics of modern Japanese poetry available in English, he has written some of the best tanka ever rendered first in English. Six published collections of the tanka of Sanford Goldstein are compiled in this single, historic, volume by "the father of tanka in English." For anyone who wants to understand tanka, who wants a genuine tanka experience, this book is a must-read. Sanford Goldstein's Four Decades on My Tanka Road is where you start your own journey with the world's oldest continually-anthologized poetic genre.</p>

Four Decades on My Tanka Road

Goldstein, Sanford

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