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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Orangutanka Orangutanka Margarita Engle All the orangutans are ready for a nap in the sleepy depths of the afternoon--all except one. Written in a series of linked poems in the tanka style, an ancient Japanese form of poetry. OL20003688W
Love Poems from the Japanese Love Poems from the Japanese Sam Hamill "Drawn from classical, medieval, and modern sources - including the imperial collections of the Manyoshu and Kokinshu - the poems in this collection are some of the greatest love poems from the Japan… OL2771732W
Row, row, row your waka Row, row, row your waka Rebecca Larsen "New Zealand friends Pūkeko, Kiwi and Hōiho go on a journey. Join them in their waka, perform actions and sing along while you row, row, row."--Back cover. OL28942694W
Cricket never does Cricket never does Myra Cohn Livingston A collection of more than fifty original haiku and tanka verses about the four seasons. OL2944357W
The tanka anthology The tanka anthology Michael McClintock - undifferentiated,Jim Kacian,Pamela Ness Miller "The tanka anthology is a compendium of more than 800 poems by nearly 70 poets from around the world, the foremost practitioners of the ancient and modern genre of tanka. While poets continue to expe… OL33577708W