Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface: Another Empire: Victorian Japan; Introduction: Analytic of the Exquisite; 1 Not About Japan; 2 All Margin; 3 The Pre- Raphaelite Haiku; 4 Loving John Ruskin; 5 The Sword and the Chrysanthemum; Notes; Index; Illustration credits…”
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Table of Contents: “…Alba: Moon Camellia Lover -- Formosan Elegy -- Nocturnes -- Summer Sleep -- Twenty Five Haiku -- One Child Has Brown Eyes -- Study Hall, Deterritorialized -- Costume Drama -- Cougar Sinonymous -- Sonnetnese -- October Song -- The Great Song -- The Great Escape -- From a Notebook of an Ex-Revolutionary -- Black President -- Every Woman Is Her Own Chimera -- Brown Girl Manifesto (Too) -- Kalifornia -- Two Inch Fables -- Naked I Come, Naked I Go -- Horns: A Coda -- Beautiful Boyfriend -- Goodbye -- Quiet the Dog, Tether the Pony…”

Table of Contents: “…Accentual-syllabic meter: the role of stress and interval ; Stanza and rhyme: the role of echo ; Further rhythms in English, counted forms: accentual verse and syllabic verse (including Haiku) ; Further rhythms in English, non-counted forms: the four freedoms of free verse -- Writing in form. …”

Table of Contents: “…Boki's predicament : Sandalwood and the China trade -- Make's dance : Migrant workers and migratory animals -- Kealoha in the Arctic : Whale blubber and human bodies -- Kailiopio and the tropicbird : Life and labor on a Guano Island -- Nahoa's tears : Gold, dreams, and diaspora in California -- Beckwith's Pilikia : "Kanakas" and "Coolies" on Haiku plantation -- Epilogue : Legacies of capitalism and colonialism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Boki's predicament : Sandalwood and the China trade -- Make's dance : Migrant workers and migratory animals -- Kealoha in the Arctic : Whale blubber and human bodies -- Kailiopio and the tropicbird : Life and labor on a Guano Island -- Nahoa's tears : Gold, dreams, and diaspora in California -- Beckwith's Pilikia : "Kanakas" and "Coolies" on Haiku plantation -- Epilogue : Legacies of capitalism and colonialism.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Invisible trails -- Arthur Boozhoo on the nature of magic -- Rose Meskwaa Geeshik's monologue on images -- Oshawa's story -- Oshawa's uncle's story -- Bombarto Rose : mixed-blood musings in obscurity -- Autobiographical profile of Bombarto Rose : an essay on personal origins -- Prisoner of haiku -- Haiku and dream songs of Elijah Cold Crow -- Bombarto Rose : essay on parameters of residence -- Bombarto Rose : a note to hold the eyes -- Bombarto Rose : winter song -- Old woman Cold Crow's monologue on the death of her son -- Old woman Cold Crow's story as payment to Bombarto Rose -- Abetung's story -- Geeshis -- Franklin Squandum's death dream : a mini-drama for native dancers -- Squandum's funeral -- Requiem for a leg -- Oshawanung's story : waking in the library -- Systems and witnesses for the museum -- The Anthro's tale -- After the requiem -- Oshawa's attempt to kill -- Rose Meskwaa Geeshik's after-image dreams -- Arthur Boozhoo : two dogs stuck together -- Seed's journey to the cave -- We the people.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Websites -- A hint of Japan in the works of Rafaël Rozendaal / Kodama Kanazawa -- Haiku -- Installations -- (Un)framing Rafaël Rozendaal / Margriet Schavemaker -- Bring your own Beamer -- Objects and screens -- Remotely distant never nowhere: the art of Rafaël Rozendaal / Christiane Paul -- Sleepmode: the art of the screensaver -- Lenticulars & Jacquard weaving -- Rafaël Rozendaal: interview / Marvin Jordan -- Snapshots.…”

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Table of Contents: “…"The Limited" -- Breaking and entering -- "Go, Ghost, Go" -- Bird-watching at night -- "After building the Lego 'Star Wars' Ultimate Death Star" -- War dances -- "The theology of reptiles" -- Catechism -- "Ode to small-town sweethearts" -- The senator's son -- "Another proclamation" -- Invisible dog on a leash -- "Home of the braves" -- The ballad of Paul Nonetheless -- "On airplanes" -- Big bang theory -- "Ode for pay phones" -- Fearful symmetry -- "Ode to mix tapes" -- Roman Catholic haiku -- "Looking glass" -- Salt -- "Food chain."…”

Table of Contents: “…Housman's use of biblical narrative / Carol Efrati -- The spirit of Haiku and A.E. Housman / Takeshi Obata.…”

Table of Contents: “…Spring Fragrance -- 2 / "Little Postage Stamps of Native Soil": The Modernist Haiku during Japanese Exclusion -- 3 / Renewing America in Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Caste and Outcast and Younghill Kang's East Goes West -- 4 / Popular Front Politics and Nonlinear Temporality in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart -- Conclusion: Asian American Universalism and the Radicalism of Performing "Assimilation" during Asian Exclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Rodriguez -- Vito on the beach / Samuel Schwartz -- The red coat / John Patrick Shanley -- Finger food / Nina Shengold -- Women and Wallace / Jonathan Marc Sherman -- Haiku / Katherine Snodgrass -- Final placement / Ara Watson -- Feeding the moonfish / Barbara Wiechmann…”

Table of Contents: “…Wreck -- The Saddle Maker -- Wreck -- Leaving Song -- Brand -- Horse Womb -- Pasture -- Geography of a Horse -- They Lie About Your Death -- Carousel Horses -- Rodeo Haiku -- A Dead Horse…”
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Table of Contents: “…Wong -- A poison tree / William Blake -- Summertime sharing / Nikki Grimes -- The wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Every cat has a story / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Street painting / Ann Turner -- Seeing the world / Steven Herrick -- Four haiku / J. Patrick Lewis -- Tugboat at daybreak / Lillian Morrison -- Ode to family photographs / Gary Soto -- Hoods / Paul B. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Ars poetica #21: graduate study of literature -- Ars poetica #227: provenance -- Ars poetica #92: Marcus Garvey on elocution -- Ars poetica #56: "bullfrogs was falling out of the sky" -- Ars poetica #16: lot -- Ars poetica #13: the idea of ancestry -- Ars poetica #2: christening -- Ars poetica #336: rose-colored glasses -- Ars poetica #66: how to -- Ars poetica #37: patriarchy -- Ars poetica #100: I believe -- Ars poetica #88: sublime -- III: Amistad -- Amistad -- The blue whale -- Absence -- boy haiku -- Poro society -- Approach -- Connecticut -- Other cargo -- Education -- The Yale men -- Teacher -- Translator -- Physiognomy -- Constitutional -- Mende vocabulary -- The girls -- Kere's song -- Judge Judson -- In cursive -- God -- Waiting for cinque to speak -- The Amistad trail -- Conque redux -- The last quatrain -- IV: American sublime -- American sublime -- Tanner's Annunciation.…”

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Far Villages -- Manniquins -- Kafka -- The Next Village -- Big Brother Loses His Virginity -- Fresh Fish -- Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat -- Don Quixote -- Metaphors -- Translating a Poem -- The Overwhelming Sadness of the Earth -- Plum -- Wisdom -- The Orange Flags of Babylon -- The Orange Flags of Babylon -- Learning to Eat a Pomegranate -- The Yellow Bird -- Picasso -- The Headless Saints -- The Amateur Zen Master -- Trapped Inside of a Haiku Poem -- The Island of Nirvana -- Rain -- The Dreams of Children -- Trains -- The Long Road -- The Bible Belt -- The Bible Belt -- The Gods -- The Ladders of Purgatory -- Drawing Jesus -- Jesus's IQ -- Seduction -- The Jewish Ghetto -- Boarding the Bus to Gomorrah -- Om -- Zero -- Halo -- The House of Death -- Paris -- The Bedouins of Paris -- Spring in Paris -- Lucifer -- The Kissing Institute -- Pornography -- French Forign Legion -- Gertrude Stein's Gardener -- Dying Park -- The Gates of Paris -- An American in Paris -- Paris, USA -- The Floating Bridge -- The Floating Bridge -- Making a Forest -- A Visit with Dali -- North Wind -- Children's Book Illustrations, Circa 1890 -- Learning Italian Slowly -- A Poem I Wrote Thirty Years Ago -- Chinese Restaurant -- Welcome Home, Children -- The History of the Umbrella -- While I Sleep -- The Fish -- Acknowledgements.…”
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