Haiku Books & Magazines

The Alchemist 7 Edited by Marco Fraticelli

her soup warmed-over leaves blow -Raymond Roseliep

6.5 x 8.25, 70 pp. 1982; copy # 156 of 500. Not all haiku and some concrete. Fine condition $15.

The Alchemist Number Ten Special Haiku Issue Edited by Marco Fraticelli

Sunday morning motel -- the girl in the yellow negligee walks her dog -Barbara McCoy

6 x 7.5, 32 pp., 1986; #245 of 300 letterpress copies. Text on dense paper, beautiful grey, stiff and untrimmed paper boards with blocks of silver and red on the front between titles. As New $30.

The Alchemist Issue Number 12 Edited by Marco Fraticelli

sleeping overnight on the couch . . . his goldfish blowing bubbles until dawn -Judith Stuart

5.5 x 8.5, 40 pp. # 68 of 350 copies. 16 pages of haiku. Some great concrete too. Blue paper cover, graphic on back of storkish knight with 2 of spades by Thomas Wiloch. Smoke stains to cover, all text on stark white, good condition overall $15.

Amann, Eric The Wordless Poem Reprinted in 1978 from the 1969 edition. Presentation copy signed by the author. 5.5 x 8.5, 44 pp. Fine condition $45.

Baker, Winona Moss-Hung Trees Commemorates World Haiku Contest winning poem of 1989 in Reflections Press edition. Calligraphy by Christine McKim.

moss-hung trees
a deer moves into
the hunter's silence

60pp, 5.5 x 8.5, Gabriola BC 1992, perfectbound. As New condition $30.

Barlow, John and Martin Lucas, editors The New Haiku Anthology published by Barlow's Snapshot Press in 2002. Over 300 poems by over 70 poets.

only on the molehills snow -Martin Lucas

5.5 x 8.5, 224 pp. some smoke stains to top face, fine condition overall $30.

Basho, Boncho and Kyorai Monkey's Raincoat Sarumino in transaltion by Lenore Matthew. Contains the 4 kasen renku, Winter Rain, Summer Moon, Autumn Cricket and Grass and Plums in facing romaji and English pages. With introduction to linked poetry and biographies of particpants by the translator. Title poem is not part of any of these renku:

Winter's first rain monkey needs a raincoat too

5 x 7.5, 151 pp. clothbound first Tuttle & Co. printing of 1983. 6 half-tone illustrations. Minor smoke foxing to top face; Binding, dustjacket and text pages as new, so Fine condition overall $75.

Beining, Guy R. 100 Haiku. Selected from a Decade (1982-1991).

23. the addict rolls
his arm
out of an attic

72pp, 6x9, New York 1992, staplebound, spine shows staining. Good condition $15


black bough number two Edited by Charles Easter and Kevin Walker

lilac time my brother's purple heart arrives -Virginia Brady Young

5.5 x 8.5, 32 pp. 1993. Illustrated by Merrill Ann Gonzales. Stapled over fading but text fine $12.

black bough number three Edited by Kevin Walker and Charles Easter

standing with deer in the field tonight the moon -Timothy Russell

5.5 x 8.5, 28 pp. 1993. Some scuffs but good condition overall $15.

black bough number four Edited by Charles Easter and Kevin Walker

sloshed in the lounge car salesman compare the size of their territory

5.5 x 8.5, 28 pp. 1994. Photos by Charles Easter, altogther as new $20.

black bough number six Edited by Chuck Easter

traffic backed up for miles around cherry blossoms -Jim Kacian

5.5 x 8.5, 28 pp. no date. This one has stains and scratches, overall condition good $12.

black bough number seven edited by Charles Easter

talked out the last ember snaps

5.5 x 8.5, 32 pp. 1995. fine condition $15.

Blyth, RH. Haiku Volume 1 Eastern Culture 344 pp. 1981 paper edition 1st printing $45. Haiku Volume 2 Spring 296 pp. 1981 paper edition 1st printing $65. Haiku Volume 3 Summer-Autumn 336 pp. 1982 paper edition 2nd printing 1984 $60.

The scholar's famous and entertaining sketch of the origins, development and importance of haiku. I don't have the fourth, completing volume so each of these may be bought separately as listedabove, or as a group for $US 135. They all have smoke stains to the top face (or they would be much more expensive0 and Volume 1 has suffered humidity damage to the tops of its pages as well. They are each 6.5 x 8.25 and beautifully illustrated. A joint publication of The Hokuseido Press Tokyo & Heian International of San Francisco.

Brock, Randall Solid Blue

holding

to the vision of a mad tongue in search

Gesture Press Toronto 1993.4.25 x 5.5, 24 pp.as new condition $20.

Codrescu, Ion and Mihaela,ed. Constanta Anthologie de Haiku Anthology.
Mihaela Codrescu, English and French translator.

în albia rîu lui Dumitrue Ene-Zårnesti
sloiurile sclipesc
în soare

On the river
floating ice shining
in the sun

Exchange copy, unsigned. 100pp, 5.5 x 8, Constanta 1992, perfectbound. Fragile but in fine condition $20.

Dragonfly East/West Haiku Quarterly Volume 15 Number 3 Edited by Richard Tice, Jack Lyon and George Grant

at midnight my trick at the wheel alone with the sea

5.5 x 8.5, 63 pp. 1989. Cream-coloured paper card cover staplebound. Chipped bottom corner. Good $15.

Dudley, Michael. Roasted Chestnuts

a housekey melted into sidewalk ice

High/Coo Press, 1979. 5.5 x 4, 24 pp. opens from its top. Presentation copy in As New condition $25.

Duggan, MB Incisions

on the coiled chicken off her lips red ick bur ick ner Face jerking are Face jerking ash Face jerking fingerprints face jerking

CurVD H&Z, Ottawa. Sealed with correspondence in corregated boards 15 x 10 and taped shut. Still sealed as new $40.

Dyck, Marge A. rectangle of light With sketches by James Dyck

Rock pool sandpiper dips into its reflection dips into its reflection

Proof Press 1996, 7 x 4.5, 48 pp. in mint condition $20.

Faiers, Chris. Foot Through the Ceiling.

Seventeen
after your orgasm
ice cream tits

Aya Press Toronto 1986: 88pp, 16 pages of haiku, 6x9, perfectbound. Fading colour to paper covers and smoke stains to top face $25.

Faiers, Chris Sleeping in Ruins Haiku and Senryu 1968 - 1980

Night beach Lovers sharing lifeguard stands

Unfinished Mounment Press Toronto 1981. Handscript on blue paper, grey cardstock covers. Dried seed glued between titles. My son's squiggles below them. 5.75 x 9, 12 pp. Rumpled, stained and rare $25.

Fraticelli, Marco Instants (1972 - 1978)

NEW YEAR'S MORNING BEHIND THE DUSTY WINE BOTTLE A BROKEN COCOON

Guernica Editions, first volume in its Essential Poets series, Montreal 1979. Short poems, last 25 pages of which are haiku. 5.5 x 8.25, 68 pp. smoke stains to spine, otherwise fine $30.

Gay, Garry Wings of Moonlight

sparrow hawk from power pole to power pole setting sun

Smythe-Waithe Press Santa Rosa CA 1993, first printing. 5.25 x 8.5, 48 pp. Fine condition $20.

Gorman, LeRoy coutout moons

as I turn from skywatching moon sleeps Daddy

High/Coo Press 1980. 4.25 x 2.75, 24 pp. stapled in as new condition $25.

Gorman, LeRoy. glass bell.

leafing thru the family album
a steady draft
from the door

King's Road Press Pointe-Claire QC 1991. First issue in the Hexagram series. 16pp,5x8, staplebound in Fine condition.$15.

Gorman, LeRoy where sky meets sky -a phasic haiku sequence-

pot ter y mind fr ame shaft projec tile

Nietzsche's Brolly Toronto 1987. The very last copy; 7 x 10, 24 pp. endpapers in purple of Japanese origin. only some stains have come. $30.

Gorman, LeRoy whose smile the ripple warps

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Underwich EditionsToronto1980. 16pp ,6x6. ,perfectbound. in fine condition $20.

Grandinetti Rader, R. W. S/HE

after afterglow . . . the cool breeze

High/Coo Press 1983. 4.25 x 2.75, 20 pp. stapled in Fine condition $25.

Gurga, Lee Nine Haiku with Japanese translations by Itsuko Kaya

morning twilight . . . horse asleep in the pasture covered with frost

Swamp Press Amherst MA 1997. 5 x 4, 16 pp. bound by sewn thread. As New condition $25.

Haiku Magazine of Romanian-Japanese Relationships Nr. 9-10 Edited by Floria Vasiliu

Zvon E roiul de albine sau numai amintiri? Hum Is it a swarm of bees or just remembrances? -Ion Pillat (1891 - 19450 Translated by Virginia Cucu

6 x 8.5, 38 pp. Red on white printing on stiff cards quite impressive. Perfectbound and As new $20.

Haiku West Vol 4 No 2 Edited by Leroy Kanterman

Standing here

in a shadow's shadow

by the scarecrow . . . Elizabeth Searle Lamb

Published c/o The Japan Society, Inc. January 1971. 5.5 x 8.5, 65 pp. Poem quoted printed on the front cover with unattributed graphic. Pale green paper for text. Stains and scuffs and so rare $40.

Harter, Penny. The Orange Balloon.

red leaves
on the rusted
hibacji

From Here Press First edition, 1980. 5.5 x 8.5, 32pp, staplebound but with lasting smoke stains to back cover of orange matte. $15.

Howard, Dorothy CADatonia

on the road how delicate the dead fox's head

proof press Gatineau 1994. 5.5 x 8.5, 20 pp. Still has pink, yellow and powder-blue vertical wrap of racing turtles intact. Altogether in mint condition $20.

Hryciuk, Marshall Persimmon Moons incense drifts the split Basho leaves wave in morning sunshine

Imago Press Toronto First edition. 5.5 x 8,5, 68 pp. in mint condition $15.

Industrial Sabotage 26. haeiekue edited by jwcurry

THE BASEMENT

The shelf. The jars of hair. The rice on the floor. -John M.Bennett

Toronto 1984. 6.5 x 5 cut envelope with top open and loose sheets held by gravity. 12 interiors sheets of a poem each and a poem on the back of the envelope (which doesn't). Sylized spelling of our genre on the cover by bp Nichol. Fine condition $35.

Industrial Sabotage 41 Edited by Peggy lefler & jwcurry

Evening walk: the burnt air seeping out of us -Greg Evason

Inkstone Volume 4 Number 2 Edited by Keith Southward, Marshall Hryciuk and Louise Fletcher

I broke in here to sleep but can't sleep for listening . . . . . . Bud Osborne

5.5 x 8.5, 41 pp. green cover out of Toronto in 1988. Mint condition $25.

Inkstone Volume 4 Number 4 Edited by Keith Southward, Marshall hryciuk and Louise Fletcher

Lighting a cigarette the bride shakes confetti from her hair -Pauline Gauthier

5.5 x 8.5, 41 pp. 1991. Purple paper cover features Irish Cross on the front, index on back; Carol Montgomery the feature poet for the issue, introduced by Keith Southward. Fine condition but some purplish stain to first and last pages $25.

Inkstone Volume 5 Number 2 Edited by Keith Southward, Marshall Hryciuk and Louise Fletcher

ggigngggigvgigtgigs ggggggggggggggggg -Carol Montgomery

5.5 x 8.5, 45 pp., lime green cover paper with leaf stamp on front. 1992. Stains around spine, still Good $25.

Inkstone Volume 5 Number 3 Edited by Keith Southward, Marshall hryciuk and Louise Fletcher

sink of sack kittens in creases -Daniel f. Bradley

5.5 x 8.5, 44 pp. The last issue in a purple covers with a Guy R. Beining graphic on the front. Colour faded on front, contents as new $20.


jwcurry and Mark Laba. The Sino-Korean Translations

words

errors

the
herd

16pp,6x3,Toronto-1987,perfectbound.$5.

Kacian, Jim Presents of Mind Illustrated by Jim Kacian

wide-eyed colt lays back its ears falling snow

Katsura Press Lake Oswego OR. 1996. 5 x 8.25, 120 pp. Smoke stains to top face. Fine $25.

Kostelanetz, Richard. TURFS, etc.
"The form of these poems is highly restrictive,
perhaps even more rigorous than the Japanese haiku. Only four words are
used, placed in the corners of an invisible rectangle, floating in the
space of the page." -Author's note. Eg., on the cover, a vertical "ARENAS"
has the upper left, a horizontal "TURFS" has the upper right, a
descending "FIELDS" has the lower right, and an upsidedown, horizontal
"PITCHES" has the lower left.
High/Coo Press 1988. 22pp,3x4, staplebound. Good condition $20.

Kovaleski, Serge Jack-hammered Genesis Andy Ferrence,illustrator.
Soup children frolic in the Danish dew

34pp, 5.5 x 8.5 New York 1992 stringbound. As new condition $25.

Kusama, Tokihiko. Sixteen Haiku. Jack Stamm,translator.

Fickle March wind
turns and makes a jump at
a girl selling flowers

20pp, 4x 7,Tokyo 1992, staplebound. As New condition $15.

cool rain
down my sleeve
the hidden key

Mckay, Anne street songs

flesh rose madder lake burnt ochre sienna slate

Wind Chimes Press Glen Burnie MD, 1988. 7 x 4, 36 pp. Stains to back, ripples to front cover. Good condition overall $15.

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Moore, Lenard D. The Open Eye

moon dusk another grasshopper hops on the wind

Chapel Hill NC 1985. 5.5 x 8.5, 67 pp. Usual wear & tear; good overall condition $20.

Partridge, Brent The Wizard's Rook

moonset a herd of deer drifts past

AHA! Chapbooks Gualala 1990. 4 x 10.75, 28 pp. Water and smoke stains to top of book. Cover design by Werner Reichhold. Good condition overall $15.

Power, Nicholas WELLS

special

secret

person event

coupled

if

articulated

looked

Underwhich Editions 1983. An example of a cryptographic translation of journal writing. 4 x 5.23, 16 pp. in mint condition $20.

Reichhold, Jane Tigers in a Teacup Collected Haiku 1988

WEATHERED PIER A ROUGHNESS BETWEEN SEA AND SKY 6:30

Arena press, Point Arena CA 1988. 6.25 x 8.25, 343 pp.. Stains to faces, good condition $30.

Reichhold, Werner Layers of Content

sheet lightning so fast we learn to read vertical lines

AHA Books 1993. 5.5 x 8.5, 122 pp. as new $20.

Rotella, Alexis The Lace Curtain (Tanka) Illustrated by Lynn Peck

Waiting endlessly for you to arrive; through a tear in the lace curtain slips the crescent moon.

Jade Mountain Press Mountain Lakes NJ 1989. 5.5 x 8.5, 16 pp. good condition $25.

Santoka Taneda Mountain Tasting Zen Haiku by Santoka Taneda, translated and edited by John Stevens

311 Using the stone for a pillow Truly sleeping: this beggar

Weatherhill New York Tokyo, the first edition of 1981 in its fourth printing of 1990. Stains to open faces. foldedin laminated paper card and text in as new conition $55.

Sato, Hiroaki One Hundered Frogs Illustrated by J.C. Brown

An old pond A frog jumps in -- Sound of water. -Geoffrey Bownas & Anthony Thwaite

Inklings First edition, 1995 from weatherhill New York. 7 x 5, 128 pp. 135 translations of the same Japanese poem. Smoke and water stains throughout but sturdy and readable $15.

Saunders, Margaret Snapdragons!

Humid evening at your touch snapdragons!

South Western Ontario Poetry London ON 1982. 5.5 x 8.5, 16 pp. Fine condition $20.

Shikatani, Gerry and David Aylward, editors Paper Doors An Anthology of Japanese-Canadian Poetry Translated by david Aylward

Kosui no onna ni hohaba hakarikeri Her fragrance makes me care fully con sider the side to side sway of her hips

Coach House Press, Toronto 1981 Second edition. 5.5 x 8.5, 195 pp. Cover is a thin paper wrap in three vertical tones, orange, green and smoke, folded. Perfectly bound. smoke foxing to faces. $30.

Sohne, Karen rain so loud.

alone in our bed in such moonlight

proof press Gatineau 1994. 42 pp, 5x3, staplebound and rare $25.

Stryk, Lucien, translator. Cage of Fireflies. Modern Japanese Haiku.

Dew clinging
to potato field
the Milky Way.
-Shiki

Swallow Press Athens OH 1995. 122pp, 5.5 x 8.5. perfectbound in Fine condition $30.

Swede, George My Shadow Doing Something

where the path ends my shadow doing something in the bushes

Tiny Poems Press, Enfield CT 1997. 6.5 x 8.5, 24 pp. staplebound in fine condition $15.

Swede, George This Morning's Mockingbird

As she undresses by the window . . . the moon through the poplars

High/Coo Press 1980. 4 x 3, 16 pp. in mint condition $20.

Swist, Wally train whistle

hawk perched on the pasture fence breast feathers fluttering in the twilight

proof press 1996. 7 x 4.25, 42 pp. with bucking to the cover opening. good condition $15.

Takaha, Shugyo Selected Haiku Edited and translated by Hoshino Tsunehiko and Adrian Pennington

hasen yori tachite kien ni kuwawareri one swallow rises from the wreck and joins its fellows flying sou.

Furansudo Tokyo, First edition of 2003. 5.5 x 8.5, 109 pp. in As new condition $30.

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Thoedoru, Stefan. The Bag of Stars. (Traista Cu Stele.)
Virginia Cucu, English translator, Constantin Frosin, French translator.

În vântul din zori,
o påstae uscatå
sunå trezirea
In the daybreak wind
a dry bean pod is sounding
a new reveille

208pp, 3.75 x 5.5, 308 pp. Bucuresti 1995. Perfectbound, vellum covers printed in green-leaf motif in mint condition $15..

Tremaine, Kit HAIKU

My old house is it true the lilacs bloom now that I am gone ?

Unicorn Folded Broadside Series, Greensboro NC 1979, Series One Number Seven. Poems open out from one glued side of a four-fold. White waxed cardboard with big black print.Pretty pattern of water stains, overall fine condition $35.

Uchida, Sono A SIMPLE UNIVERSE

Eating crabs -- right underneath the Southern Cross

Press Here First printing 1995. 4.25 x 6, 48 pp. Poems translated by the author with the assistance of Kris Kondo and W.J. Higginson. Mint condition $20.

Virgilio, Nicholas A.. Selected Haiku.

the knifegrinder's bell
fades in the afternoon heat:
cicada

Burnt Lake Press Sherbrooke QC & Black Moss Press Windsor ON 1988. 5.5 x 8.5, 80 pp. Perfectbound and in Fine condition $35.

Walsh, Phyllis center stillness

canoeing closer driftwood branch e r o n

Scythe Press Dakota MN 1989. 4.75 x 3.75, 18 pp. cream untrimmed paper card sewn with blue thread. fine condition $20.

Willmot, Rod Haiku

Listening . . .

After a while

I take up my axe again

Les Editions Particulieres Québec 1969, 100 pp. ,8.5 x 5.5 , handwritten text, staplebound with some warp, a few stains and much character $45.

Willmot, Rod The Ribs of Dragonfly

now the spade sinks by itself fireflies turning the dark

An early haibun. Black Moss Press Windsor ON 1984. 5.5 x 8.75, 93 pp. Some buckling to the bottom corner otherwise Fine condition $35.

Wills, John Reed Shadows

the larger flakes stick to the wind a moment

A joint Burnt Lake Press, Black Moss Press publication of 1987. First edition, review copy. 5.5 x 8.5, 112 pp. with a preface by Cor van den Heuvel and an introduction by Rod Willmot. Smoke foxing to all faces still in fine condition $30.

Wills, Marlene Morelock the old tin roof haiku, senryu, dadaku

. . . up f and l down i the e light s chain

hoot owl no date. 9 x 3.75, 94 leafs printed on the recto only and spiralbound (cerlox). Smoke stains, even on the rings, throughout. text and binding totally intact. As rare as it is original $50.

Woodpecker Volume 6 - 1 a worldwide journal for sharing Haiku

Probladno jutro -- na belom cvetu petunije beli leptir A cool morning on the white petunia a white butterfly Zoran Doderovic translated by Gerda H. Naarding-Tukkers

Jutrijp Netherlands 2000. A colour print of a red-headed woodpecker with a gold crown graces the front cover. Contributors' Notes features some photographs Staplebound and fine $20.