Copyright © 2007 by Cor van den Heuvel

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The three haiku by Jack Kerouac (two in the American Baseball Haiku & Senryu section & one on football quoted in the introduction) are from Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac, edited by Regina Weinreich, copyright © 2003 by the Estate of Stella Kerouac, John Sampas, Literary Representative. Used by permission of Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

The prose excerpts by Edward J. Rielly quoted in the introduction are from “Baseball Haiku: Bash, the Babe, and the Great Japanese-American Trade,” by Edward J. Rielly. From The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2001, copyright © 2002 State University of New York, College at Oneonta, edited by William M. Simons, permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640. www.mcfarlandpub.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Baseball haiku: American and Japanese haiku and senryu on baseball / Edited with translations by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-0-393-06638-8

1. Haiku, American. 2. Baseball—Poetry. 3. Haiku. 4. Senryu. I. Van den Heuvel, Cor, 1931–II. Tamura, Nanae.

PS593. H3B37 2007

811'.04108357—dc22

2007061179

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