Poetry. Haiku. This book is one of the finest examples showing the variety of ways in which American haiku has explored its poetic potential during the last thirty years. One and three-line haiku, rensaku (sequential composition), renku, haibun, senryu, even tanka -- all are there, each form perfectly matching the subject that inspired the poet. Paga after page the reader discovers how on various occasions in her eventful life the author caught the essence of a moment and transformed it into a poem with a minimum use of words. -- Makoto Ueda.