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"Translations of more than 50 haiku accompanied by sympathetic landscape photographs, woodcut prints and calligraphy irresistibly capture the spirit of old Japan. The book traces the evolution of haiku from courtly accomplishments in Kyoto during the Heian period (9th to 12th centuries) to the work of the great haiku poets of the 17th to 19th centuries..."--Jacket.

Presents poems of various styles and themes by more than sixty African poets of various ideologies; poets' home countries include Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Congo, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

An illustrated collection of poems from the oral tradition of Native Americans.

Presents English translations of the primary poems of thirteenth-century spiritual poet Jelaluddin Rumi.

A collection of short fiction and poetry that displays the breadth and achievement of celebrated Latina authors while introducing the next generation of voices.

A collection of twenty short fiction stories by various authors that were selected from entries in The Big Read literature program and reflect the diversity of Mexico's literary history.

Presents English translations of short stories by thirty-one Latin American women authors from fourteen countries, including selections by Isabel Allende, Carmen Naranjo, and Amparo Davila.