Well-Versed: Exploring Modern Japanese Haiku is a collection of roughly three hundred modern haiku by different poets, curated from Ozawa's commentary in the magazine Haiku Arufa over the course of a decade, from 2008-2018 and translated by Janine Beichman.
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