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Lewis G. Alexander - Hokku & Other Poems Public Domain Poets #14 | Publicdomainpoets.com Containing all of Alexander's poetry, originally published between 1923-1927 in various journals and anthologies, including 52 hokku and tanka, a short essay on hokku, a handful of other poems (both rhymed and unrhymed). New edition designed and edited by Dick Whyte. Like cherry blossoms Dancing with the passing wind- My shattered hopes. Lewis G. Alexan...

Amy Lowell - Lacquer Prints & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #12 | Publicdomainpoets.com Containing all of Lowell's hokku and tanka, alongside selected verses from 1910-1927. New edition designed and edited by Dick Whyte. Our meeting was like the upward swish of a rocket In the blue night I do not know when it burst: But now I stand gaping In a glory of falling stars. Lowell was born into a wealthy family, in Massachusetts. Due to the l...

Sadakichi Hartmann - Drifting Flowers & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #10 | Publicdomainpoets.com Containing Sadakichi Hartmann's 'Tanka & Haikai: Japanese Rhythms' (1915), selections from 'My Rubaiyat' (1913), and the earlier, 'Drifting Flowers of the Sea' (1904), and the essays 'Why I Publish My Own Books' (1915) and 'The Japanese Conception of Poetry' (1904). New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. If pleasures be mi...

Marie Tudor Garland - Songs For Women & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #9 | Publicdomainpoets.com Selections from Marie Tudor Garland's 'The Potter's Clay' (1917), 'The Winged Spirit' (1918), and 'The Marriage Feast' (1920), never before anthologised. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. The sun is low, Shadows from the trees beyond the trail Across the meadow, - The closing of another day. And life still beyond the h...

Akiko Yosano, Akiko Yanagiwara, Takeko Kuj¿: Three Women Poets of Japan Public Domain Poets #13 | Publicdomainpoets.com 'Three Women Poets of Modern Japan' (1927), with additional material, including over 100 tanka by Akiko Yosano (1878-1942), Akiko Yanagiwara (a.k.a. 'White Lotus', 1885-1967), and Takeko Kuj¿ (1887- 1928), selected and translated into English by Glenn Hughes and Yazan T. Iwasaki. New edition designed and edited by Dick Whyte...

Sappho - Love Songs & Other Fragments Public Domain Poets #15 | Publicdomainpoets.com Sappho (c. 630-570 B.C.) was born into a wealthy family from the island of Lesbos, and is said to have had 3 brothers. She probably took up poetry early in life, and would go on to be one of the most highly regarded lyric poets of her time. This collection brings together a generous helping of her surviving fragments, translated by James Easby-Smith (1891) &...

Gwendolyn B. Bennett - Nocturne & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #16 | Publicdomainpoets.com Containing all of Gwendolyn B. Bennett's poetry, originally published between 1923-1927 in various journals and anthologies, with illustrations by Bennett. New edition designed and edited by Dick Whyte. This cool night is strange Among midsummer days . . . Far frosts are caught In the moon's pale light, And sounds are distant laughter Chilled to t...

Mina Loy - Songs to Joannes & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #7 Containing the entire 34 song sequence, Songs to Joannes, and a generous selection of Loy's other verses (originally published 1914-1923), as well as selected short essays, manifestos, and aphorisms. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. I am the jealous store-house of candle-ends That lit your adolescent learning --------- Behind God's eyes There might be ...

Adelaide Crapsey - Cinquains & Other Verse Public Domain Poets #6 Cinquains & Other Verse contains a generous selection of Adelaide Crapsey's cinquains, and various other poems, originally published in her posthumous volume of poetry, Verse (1915), with a preface by Jean Webster, and William Stanley Braithwaite. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. The Sun-Dial Every day, Every day, Tell the hours By their shadows, B...

Pearl Andelson - Fringe & Other Poems Public Domain Poets #2 'Fringe & Other Poems' brings together around 50 poems, including verses from Andelson's 1923 collection 'Fringe', and a selection of other verses and variants, written between 1921 and 1926, never before anthologised. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. The rain arranged Crystal berries for me To wear In my hair. By inadvertence one fell into the infinity of...

Iris Barry - Impressions & Studies Public Domain Poets #8 Containing almost all of Iris Barry's published poetry from the 1910s and 20s, never before anthologised. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. At night my mother sits uncorseted And with tired gestures combs her long hair. Her head shines in the gaslight, And she yawns, dropping many hair-pins As she goes upstairs. Iris Barry (1895-1969) was born in Birmingham, ...

T.E. Hulme - Fragments & Other Poems Public Domain Poets #3 'Fragments & Other Poems' brings together a small collection of around 30 of Hulme's poems, including a selection of 'fragments' (published posthumously in 1921) and verses from 'The Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme' (first published as an afterword to Ezra Pound's 'Ripostes', in 1912). New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. In the quiet land There is a secre...

Mary Caroline Davies - Songs of a Girl & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #4 'Songs of a Girl & Other Verses' brings together over 100 of Mary Carolyn Davies' unrhymed verses, including the 29 song sequence 'Songs of a Girl' (first published 1919), the 24 song sequence 'Songs' (1917), and a generous selection of other song sequences, verses, and variants (originally published from 1914-1920), none of which have been anthologised before. New e...

Yone Noguchi - Japanese Hokku & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #5 Containing over 100 of Yone Noguchi's English-language haiku (then called hokku), and haikai and tanka-influenced "free" verse (originally published from 1896-1920), as well as numerous excerpts from his essays and lectures on hokku and poetics, little of which has been anthologised before. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. Behold the sky where the cu...

Jun Fujita - Poems in Exile & Other Verses Public Domain Press 'Poems in Exile & Other Verses' is a reprint of Jun Fujita's 1923 collection, 'Tanka: Poems In Exile', including a selection of earlier verses, written between 1919 and 1923, never before anthologised. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte. Fujita was born in Japan, moved to Canada as a teen, and settled in Chicago, America. While Fujita is best remembered for ...