 A Long 
            Rainy Season
 
            A Long 
            Rainy Season 
            Haiku & Tanka
          Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry
            Volume 1
          edited by Leza Lowitz, Miyuki Aoyama, and 
            Akemi Tomioka 
        
        The first collection of contemporary 
          Japanese women's verse in English translation. Fifteen poets write on 
          love, motherhood, daughterhood, politics, body parts, nature, corruption. 
          A companion to Other Side River: Free Verse. 
        
"Shows how passion, ideas, 
          and the broad range of human experience can be held in brief poems of 
          large reach--a great gift for us all."--Jane Hirshfield 
        
A Long Rainy Season 
          was awarded the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award for overall design and 
          editorial excellence in Fiction/Poetry by Publishers Marketing Association.