Essential Haiku : Versions of Basho, Buson, and Is Liz Williams Short stories set in the

Short stories set in the world of Twisted Wonderland

filled with larger-than-life legends

and superstition--and her survival through dissociative identity disorder

the scene of the crime

Essential Haiku : Versions of Basho, Buson, and Is Liz Williams Short stories set in theAmerican readers have been fascinated since their exposure to Japanese culture late in the nineteenth century, with the brief Japanese poem called the hokku or haiku. The seventeen syllable form is rooted in a Japanese tradition of close observation of nature, of making poetry from subtle suggestion. Infused by its great practitioners with the spirit of Zen Buddhism, the haiku has served as an example of the power of direct observation to the first