The Sleepless Planet / 眠れない星

The following poems appeared in The Sleepless Planet (Tokyo: Shichigatsu-do, 2018), edited by Toshio Kimura, published by the International Section of the Modern Haiku Association in celebration of the 70th anniversary (in 2017) of Japan’s Gendai Haiku Kyōkai, or Modern Haiku Association. In his introduction, Kimura says “haiku has been recognized as an outstanding poetic form even in languages other than Japanese,” and that “The poets appearing in this anthology are truly active in the vanguard of their respective countries.” The translations into Japanese for my poems, pages 82 and 83, are by Toshio Kimura. You can order the book on the Japanese Amazon site.