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NEW for 2008! books by an'ya (Summer 2008 — watch for A Tanka Companion: 101 tanka by an'ya )


                                                                  
seasons of a hermitess
101 haiku by an'ya

an'ya —a household name in the haiku-world— is editor of moonset Literary Newspaper.
an'ya walks quietly through the seasons and observes. 101 haiku touch 101 moments as they pass.
With a deft and innocent brush of her hand, an'ya opens the door to each season with a sumi-e painted haiga.

"We must not discount the complexity of this art form. It is far more difficult to be creative
in three lines of limited syllables ... In haiku, the impact must be immediate — then fleeting,
just as those real moments in our lives and in nature." from the preface

seasons of a hermitess
6 x 9 in. hand bound, 112 pp.special price 17.95 (regular retail $21.95)
     Thai mulberry flyleaves with botanical inclusions, Thai Unryu interleaving,
Echizen Washi cover in the style of Japanese handmade paper, archival.

 


Deluxe Edition                                                                   Standard Edition

Beneath the Willow Tree
poems from the North Carolina Haiku Society
edited by Lenard D. Moore, Artwork by Diane Katz


Lenard Moore, Executive Chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society, President of the Haiku Society
of America
and an editor of Simply Haiku has selected work from the best of his fellow North Carolinian
haijin for Beneath the Willow Tree. Handmade papers in a Japanese stab binding, spacious design, with
sensitive and unusual illustrations provide a sense-heightening context for thirty haiku in two handbound editions.
     In addition to Lenard Moore's own haiku, the volume includes poems by Richard Straw, Charlie Smith,
Dave Russo, Bob Moyer, Kate MacQueen, Richard Krawiec, Curtis Dunlap, L. Teresa Church, and Philip Bizzarri.
     For each illustration, Diane Katz "had the pleasure of sifting through linoleum carvings made in each decade
of my life...selecting pictures and textures often so serendipitously suited to the poem. Through energetic rubbing,
hidden images magically reveal themselves...."

Beneath the Willow Tree is available in two editions from Rosenberry Books:
Deluxe Edition - 6 x 9 in. hand bound hardcover —16.95
     Thai mulberry flyleaves with bamboo inclusions, additional illustrations, color printing, archival.

Standard Edition - 6 x 9 in. hand bound softcover —10.95
    greyscale images, archival.



By this Christmas Moon

poems by Sam Williams
Fraktur Folk Art by Diane Katz


For fourteen years, Sam Williams delighted in writing his annual Christmas poem. An English teacher
in Tennessee for thirty-one years, Williams has in By this Christmas Moon collected his poems with
colorful folk art illustrations by Diane Katz. A perfect Christmas gift book.

By this Christmas Moon
A Deluxe "Book in Hand" Edition - 9 x 12 in. hand bound hardcover —34.95
     Thai mulberry flyleaves with fabric inclusions, full color illustrations, archival.


   Sermons that are a good read? Yes!
A Word in Season, how good it is!: a Christian Year in Sermons
by eleven preachers from the Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship
edited by Thomas Lehman
foreword by James Juhnke, author of  The Missing Peace


6 x 9 in hand bound, 168 pp $21.95

from Faith Matters, Mennonite Weekly by John Esau
"(A) unique book . This is a book to be savored, not only in reading but in visual display as well ...
fresh and inviting, calling us to the adventure of faith."

From A WORD IN SEASON
Sleeping alone in the desert is not the best idea. I learned this the hard way ... (M)y fellow Americans took a bus
back to Johannesburg, South Africa, ... I went back to my little tent to go to sleep. As I lay there remembering ...
I heard footsteps outside my tent. I sat up to listen. Slowly the zipper on the front of my tent was unzipped. “Hello?”
I said, staring into the darkness. No reply, but I did hear the sound of feet running away on the sand. Now, I have to
tell you, my first thought when I heard that zipper was not, “This is God.” And it wouldn’t have been Jacob’s either.
No, Jacob must have suspected his midnight visitor to be his dreaded enemy. Scared to death and alone in the desert,
his first thought must have been, “This is Esau.”

from sermon by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove


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