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Jim Kacian is one of the halfdozen best-known practitioners of haiku outside of Japan. He has produced a dozen books, and his work has been translated into more than 50 languages. Presents of Mind was his first full-length, award-winning collection, and became the first volume of English-language haiku ever to be seriously translated in full into Japanese. This volume, a collaboration between the author and the Kon Nichi Translation Group, led by Prof. Richard Gilbert and associated with Kumamoto University, will help readers of haiku understand why his work has been so favorably received in so many cultures. In addition to his own work, Kacian has edited and published scores of other books related to haiku, especially The Red Moon Anthology series, an annual compedium of the best haiku published in English around the world, and the contemporary haibun series, which does the same for haibun and haiga."Kacian's poetry exhibits a refreshing spark of imagination, a deep affinity with nature, and a joy in sharing experience- all of which draws the reader warmly in . . ." - H. F. Noyes"Reading Kacian's haiku helped me find my way into the tradition of this form, but I read them most of all because they present a sense of wonder in a setting familiar to me. Bringing this wonder home is his gift." - John Stevenson

A full-length collection from one of the leading lights in contemporary English-language haiku, and his first in nearly a decade.

If you look at the history and the specialities of monoku and collage, you will come to the interesting conclusion that both genres are amazingly different and similar at the same time?-?and can therefore complement and expand each other excellently due to their complexities and ambiguities.Jim Kacian and Terry Ann Carter, both masters of their respective genres, unerringly and creatively explore new boundaries with their joint works in this book, and yet?-?or precisely because of this?-?allow the spark of poetry to jump over in new and surprising ways. Both monoku and collage seem to bring together fragments of this world here, the "traces" of their origins remain visible sometimes only imaginable, at the same time narrative lines are interrupted . . . the viewer's imagination becomes part of the artistic process.The deliberate omission (elision) in monoku and pos-sible free spaces (ma) in collages are two techniques that can astonishingly complement and enrich each other in their interplay. Seen in this light, the works in this book certainly correspond to the overall conception of a haiga.

An anthology of more than 800 poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. This collection tells the story for the first time of Anglophone haiku, charting its evolution over the last one hundred years and placing it within its historical and literary context.

The Japanese write their haiku in a single vertical line. In my efforts to regain something of what is attained by the original Japanese practice, I have discovered some effects that, for a variety of reasons, are not available in Japanese. This small book focuses on three of the more interesting ones, tentatively titled "one line-one thought," "speedrush" and "multistops." In any case, I hope my study will prove a stimulus to other poets for further experimentation. --Jim Kacian.

The Red Moon Anthology series, founded in 1996 by Jim Kacian of Red Moon Press, is the most honored publishing project in the history of English-language haiku. Each year thousands of haiku and related forms (senryu, haibun, renku, sequences, review, criticism and commentary) from around the world are nominated for consideration of being included by the eleven members of the Red Moon Editorial Staff. These nominations are then placed on a roster and considered anonymously by the entire staff, and those works that receive at least 50% of these votes are included in that year's volume.carving darkness, the sixteenth volume in this series, honors work from the year 2011. It includes 146 poems, 16 linked forms (haibun, renku and sequence), and 6 critical essays on the reading, writing and appreciation of haiku.

The Red Moon anthologies are the best annual source for keeping up with what is happening in the burgeoning world of English-language haiku. This latest volume presents nearly 150 poems, haiku, senryu, sequences, renku, haibun, and more along with essays and articles, the best work published in the field. Pegging the Wind is the seventh volume in this award winning series.