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"There are many reasons to fall in love with A Solitary Woman. I did! Lovely, sensuous, brave, spirited tanka in the tradition of Izumi Shikubu, Yosano Akiko, Akitsu Ei and countless others who took the joys and pains of love, life and loss and transformed them into poetry. Hats off to Ms.Babusci for digging deep and unearthing the light in even the darkest moments of the heart. The ancient tradition of tanka lives on around the world, and Ms. Babusci is testament to its enduring power and grace." --Leza Lowitz, Editor of A Long Rainy Season: Contemporary Haiku and Tanka by Japanese Women and Author, Green Tea to Go: Stories from Tokyo Pamela A. Babusci is an artist. When she writes tanka she "puts a brush into paint & paint onto canvas" and not one shade of emotion or experience is absent from her palette. Hanging comfortably alongside van Gogh's Starry Night, Picasso's Blue Nude and O'Keeffe's Red Canna are honest self- portraits, passionate abstracts, landscapes of a life and soul laid bare. These are tanka of love, grief, pain, strength, longing, and at the heart of each, the pulse of every woman is palpable. In the hands of this gifted poet, A Solitary Woman is an invitation to a private viewing of a remarkable collection. -- Claire Everett, Editor of Skylark and author of twelve moons.

Dark, grimy, sensual, hideous, horrendous, within, subtle, straight-up, derelict, once, doom, destiny, bound, Disney Land, rank, fraud, plagiarism, writer's bloque, sand, whippets & marmalade.

A delicate dance of wings is a collection of prose poems called haibun.

Tanka, the ancient Japanese poetic form, has been an important source for modernists for more than 100 years, but never relegated itself to the position of dusty relic. It is alive and vital and producing some of the most eloquent and insightful poetry published in English today. Many thousands of tanka poems are published every year--but which ones are the most rewarding for the readers? ... Famous names and unknown poets from around the world appear side by side in 321 single poems and several tanka sequences and tanka prose pieces.--Modern English Tanka Press.

This book is a commemorative anthology of poems by attendees and participants in Haiku North America 2007, an international celebration of haiku and related genres of poetry held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from August 15 through 19, 2007. Each attendee who chose to submit poems was guaranteed to have one selected for inclusion in this anthology.

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