Ripples from a Splash: A Collection of Haiku Essays with Award-Winning Haiku has been published by A Room of My Own Press.

This book is now available from www.lulu.com  Ebook, 131 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9868947-0-1, Price: $8.99.

Contents

Preface: My Writing Journey in a World of One Color  

Section One: Personal Critical Essays

1 Three Readings of Ezra Pound’s “Metro Haiku”
2 Haiku as Ideogrammatic Montage: A Linguistic-Cinematic Perspective
3 The Breach of Meaning?: Roland Barthes’s View of Haiku
4 The Ripples from a Splash: A Generic Analysis of Basho’s Frog Haiku
5 Waking from Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream — Plagiarism or Honkadori
6 Make Haibun New through the Chinese Poetic Past: Basho’s Transformation of Haikai  Prose
7 Reviving Japanese Haikai through Chinese Classics: Yosa Buson and the Basho Revival

Section Two: Featured Haiku

1 Award-Winning Haiku
2 Editor’s Choice Haiku  
3 An Evaluation and Introspective Look at the Haiku of Chen-ou Liu by Robert D. Wilson

About the Author:

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen-ou Liu was a college teacher, essayist, editor, and two-time winner of the national Best Book Review Radio Program Award. In 2002, he emigrated to Canada and settled in Ajax, a suburb of Toronto, where he continues to struggle with a life in transition and translation. He is a contributing writer for Rust+Moth and the World Kigo Database, on which his personal webpage is called “Confessions of a Germanophile” (http://europasaijiki.blogspot.com/2011/02/chen-ou-liu.html).
 
Chen-ou Liu is the author of the forthcoming book entitled Broken/Breaking English: Selected Short Poems of Chen-ou Liu. His poems have been published and anthologized worldwide. His tanka and haiku have been honored with 12 awards, including Grand Prix in the 2010 Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest in English, 特選 (Prize Winner) in the 12th Haiku International Association Haiku Contest, Second Place in the North Carolina Poetry Society Lyman Haiku Award, and Tanka Third Place in the 2009 San Francisco International Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Rengay Competition. Read more of his poems on his poetry blog, Poetry in the Moment (http://chenouliu.blogspot.com/).

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