A Long Rainy Season

Haiku and Tanka (Out of Print)

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Leza Lowitz

Winner of the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award, this is a landmark anthology of traditional short verse. In haiku and tanka, fifteen Japanese women poets reveal universal female themes through the lens of a challenging spiritual and physical Japanese environment.

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Leza Lowitz

Collaborated with her husband Shogo Oketani, on a book about kanji for tattoos, a collection of poetry by a pacifist Japanese soldier, and a Young Adult trilogy about a young female ninja's quest to save her ancestral land.

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