The Little Book of Yotsumonos

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Coming soon from Darlington Richards Press!

The Little Book of Yotsumonos
by John E. Carley with six other poets

Carley is well known for his ground-breaking and ongoing work in the practice and understanding of renga/renku outside of Japan. He has made valuable and topical contributions to current and previous issues of Journal of Renga & Renku as well as to various internet journals, and his Renku Reckoner website is a well-thumbed resource for poets working in the genre.

Darlington Richards Press
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Darlington Richards are pleased to announce the launch of the Little Book of Yotsumonos.

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John Carley's recently-designed four-verse renku format is represented by 60 poems, wherein Carley collaborates with such well-known haikai poets as Hortensia Anderson, Lorin Ford, Carole MacRury, Sandra Simpson, William Sorlien and Sheila Windsor, together with an introduction to the form.

"I have always been impressed by John Carley's knowledge of Japanese linked verse… It is my sincere hope that this new form of linked verse will take root." -Nobuyuki Yuasa, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University, and translator of Basho's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (Penguin Classics, 1966).

"the Little Book of Yotsumonos opens up a world of poetic possibility, sourced by the old, both the Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions, yet fresh and original… I suspect few will be able to read this book without wanting to try and compose a yotsumono themselves." -Sonja Arntzen, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, and translator of The Kagero Diary and Ikkyu and the Crazy Cloud Anthology.

Preview: darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_preview
Purchase: darlingtonrichards.com/lboy_buy