So Happy to See Cherry Blossoms: Haiku from the Year of the Great Earthquake and Tsunami

by Madoka Mayuzumi, Hiroaki Sato (Translator), Nancy Sato (Translator)

A remarkable collection of haiku written by victims of the terrible tsunami of 2011. Their poems, and the short prose passages they wrote to follow them, capture both the sorrows and the triumphs of the spirit resulting from this catastrophic event. In fact, just the act of composing the haiku seems to have helped many of these writers to heal the psychic wounds they suffered. In the process they provide us with vivid personal accounts of what happened. The book is a tribute to their indomitable spirit and to the powers of poetry.

124 pages, Paperback

Published April 10, 2020

Reviews

[Kris · Rating 4 out of 5]

More than the haiku it was a glimpse into a country devastated by disaster and the people who survived. Using haiku from all ages I was particularly drawn to those by seniors and children. Nature continued on.