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Diary Poems

X. P. Callahan

Years of days of poems

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Kobayashi Issa’s haiku “On a branch . . . ,” adapted here as a lune, was translated from the Japanese by Jane Hirshfield.

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  • X. P. Callahan

    Poet. Bookmaker. Translator of French and Spanish poetry and literary criticism. Publisher at Monday Editions. Former editor at Random House, University of Washington Press, Stanford University Press. Work in RATTLE, CALYX, elsewhere. Lives in NM.

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