Love Haiku : Masajo Suzuki's Lifetime of Love

by Masajo Suzuki

A selection of a contemporary haiku writer's lifetime work in haiku. Please join us in the celebration of Love Masajo Suzuki's Lifetime of Love edited and translated by Lee Gurga and Emiko Miyashita, a translation team which combines the talents of two of our leading contemporary haiku poets in the United States and Japan. This book includes the best love haiku by Masajo, published in a dual-language edition with notes from the author as well as from the translators. firefly
I step off the path
of woman's virtue Masajo Suzuki followed her own path. She is not just a love poet in the sense of writing about her lover, but a love poet in the larger sense of loving life and living it fully.

Genres: Japan, Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Don Wentworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Felt as though I couldn't appreciate the subtly of some of Masajo Suzuki's work. There are some fine haiku/senryu here. Three of my favorites:

no escaping it-
I must step on fallen leaves
to take this path

morning-glory
the small promise of its seeds
is sufficient

deep plum rain-
the invisible string
who is pulling it


Well worth reading as it gives a unique look at love in brief poetic forms from a woman's POV.

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful and personal haiku.

[Kat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Masajo Suzuki is my inspiration, my muse. Tormented by love and duty, her life is recorded in haiku.