A critical collection that reads haiku through issues such as cutting, literary grammar, and resemblance among poems from the viewpoint of a practitioner. It gives both writers and readers a foundation for interpretation.

It illuminates the depth of reading a haiku through the sensibility of practice.

A collection of criticism on the nature of modern haiku and the legacy of postwar haiku criticism. It explores what haiku is through both poems and critical history.

It measures haiku’s possibilities through the range of modern and postwar criticism.