Description: An analysis of haiku-related poetic forms that traces their histories and analyzes current trends, while arguing that they are now established forms in American poetry
Brief description: Ce Rosenow is the author of six poetry books and chapbooks and one of eight authors of Beyond Within: A Collection of Rengay. She co-edited with Bob Arnold The Next One Thousand Years: Selected Poems of Cid Corman, co-authored with Maurice Hamington Care Ethics and Poetry, and her book Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions was published in 2022. Rosenow is the former publisher of Mountains and Rivers Press and the former president of the Haiku Society of America. She teaches literature and writing at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon.
Review Quotes: "From Basho's frogpond, beyond the barbed wire of Japanese-American internment camps, to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the murder of George Floyd, haiku, tanka, senryu, and other originally Japanese verse forms have entered the marrow of modern and contemporary American poetry. Just how this transfusion took place-and how it continues to register in works by the likes of Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, Sonia Sanchez, Langston Hughes, and Lenard D. Moore-are the animating questions of this insightful collection of essays by leading scholars. A must read for anyone interested in American as well as Japanese poetry!" --Adam L. Kern, Author of "The Penguin Book of Haiku"