Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women

Edited by Makoto Ueda

Paper, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12863-6
$29.50 / £17.50

May, 2003
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12862-9
$83.50 / £49.00

"fluid translations and careful selection...even scholars for whom gender is not a burning issue will find this volume a welcome and up-to-date survery" — P. F. Kornicki, Monumenta Nipponica

"This book breaks new ground and provides an important entrée into the subject of women’s haiku for English readers. Deeply moving, amusing, insightful, thought provoking, and breathtakingly beautiful by turns, the poems in this volume cover a wide range of human experience. They reveal both the continuity of a haiku sensibility over the centuries and individual difference. And how good it is to see the women haiku students of Basho getting their due!" — Sonja Arntzen, University of Toronto

"Makoto Ueda has given us several great gifts with his book on women haiku poets: introductions to a host of writers previously unknown to readers in English; concise and eloquent translations of their work—Ueda's translation simply gets better and better with each book and makes it look easy—and a revised view of the history of haiku. Its richness increases with every reading." — Amy V. Heinrich, Director, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Poetry

About the Author

Makoto Ueda is professor emeritus of Japanese at Stanford University. He has written, translated, or edited fourteen books, including Modern Japanese Tanka and Light Verse from the Floating World.

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