Juxtapositions, The Haiku Foundation’s journal of haiku research and scholarship, announces the release of Juxtapositions 4.1. Articles include:

• “The Pig and the Boar” by Clayton Beach, an investigation into the limits to brevity and simplicity in haiku
• “Sonia Sanchez’s ‘magic/now’” by Meta L. Schettler, which explores the eclectic approach to haiku taken by one of this generation’s most renowned poets and cultural figures
• “The Postdomestic Woman in Roberta Beary’s The Unworn Necklace” by Joshua Gage, wherein the author explores the way in which women who have experienced divorce express themselves in film, art, and now, haiku
• “Texts Within Texts”, by Richard Tice, which considers the underlying texts within a text being read and the relationship between them, a process particularly rich in haiku
• “Matter and Method: Emerson, Haiku, and the Way of Zen” by Donald Eulert, which takes as its departure point the journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson and explores them for ‘haiku’ sensibility

It also contains reviews of East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison, edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani (Columbia MO: University of Missouri Press, 2017. ISBN 9780826273949), reviewed by Tiffany Austin; African American Haiku: Cultural Visions, edited by John Zheng (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-0303-0), reviewed by Joshua Gage; Poetic Spirit Through Haiku by Sonia Sanchez (New York, NY: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-4332-3), reviewed by Joshua Gage; Haiku Before Haiku by Steven D. Carter (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-231-15647-9), reviewed by Michael Dylan Welch; and The River of Heaven: The Haiku of Bashō, Buson, Issa, and Shiki by Robert Aitken (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2011. ISBN 978-1-58243-710-1), reviewed by Michael Dylan Welch; as well as eight haiga by and in tribute to the late poet and painter Marlene Mountain, with commentary by Stephen Addiss.

Juxtapositions can now be found between covers as well! These large, attractive, full-color volumes contain all the articles from their respective issues, in book form. Royalties help support The Haiku Foundation. Order them here:

JUXTAFOUR, ISBN 978-0-9826951-5-9, 6″ x 9″, 178 pages in full color (Winchester VA: The Haiku Foundation, 2016). Edited by the Juxtapositions Editorial Staff: Peter McDonald (Senior Editor), Stephen Addiss, Randy Brooks, Bill Cooper, Jim Kacian, Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy, Ce Rosenow, Dave Russo. Includes articles by Clayton Beach, Meta L. Schettler, Joshua Gage, Richard Tice and Donald Eulert; reviews by Tiffany Austin, Joshua Gage and Michael Dylan Welch; haiga by Marlene Mountain with commentary by Stephen Addiss.

 
 
 

JUXTATHREE, ISBN 978-0-9826951-4-2, 6″ x 9″, 190 pages in full color (Winchester VA: The Haiku Foundation, 2016). Edited by the Juxtapositions Editorial Staff: Peter McDonald (Senior Editor), Stephen Addiss, Randy Brooks, Bill Cooper, Jim Kacian, Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy, Ce Rosenow, Dave Russo. Includes articles by Pierides et al, Rosenow & Hamington, Cates, Sato, Addiss, McMurray, and Marshall; reviews by Gage and Brooks; haiga by Addiss, Babusci, Beining, French, Makino, Moss, Peckham and Rozmus, setting haiku of Billy Collins.

 
 

JUXTATWO, ISBN 978-0-9826951-3-5, 6″ x 9″, 290 pages in full color (Winchester VA: The Haiku Foundation, 2016). Edited by the Juxtapositions Editorial Staff: Peter McDonald (Senior Editor), Stephen Addiss, Randy Brooks, Bill Cooper, Jim Kacian, Ce Rosenow, Dave Russo, Sandra Simpson. Includes articles by Simpson, Kendall, Trumbull, Marshall/Simpson; interview of van den Heuvel by Kacian; reviews by Allen, Welch and Rosenow, plus mini-reviews of poems by several poets; resources by Brooks; haiga by Moss, Babusci, Codrescu, Peckham, French, Mountain and Addiss, with commentary by Addiss and Kacian.

 
 

JUXTAONE, ISBN 978-0-9826951-2-8, 6″ x 9″, 274 pages in full color (Winchester VA: The Haiku Foundation, 2016). Edited by the Juxtapositions Editorial Staff: Peter McDonald (Senior Editor), Stephen Addiss, Randy Brooks, Bill Cooper, Aubrie Cox, Jim Kacian, Ce Rosenow, Dave Russo, Sandra Simpson. Includes articles by Marshall, Joy, Trumbull, Shirane, Takiguchi and Kacian; interview of Yuki Ito by Udo Wenzel; reviews by Welch and Hall; resources by Brooks; haiga by Beining, Codrescu, Makino, Moss, Mountain, Peckham and Rotella, with commentary by Addiss.