E.S. Lamb, Editor
Frogpond
970 Acequia Madrre
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(typed)
September 29, 89
Dear Chris Faiers:
In today's mail I received the 'permission request'
for use of one of your haiku (actually request for your
address) along with three others, forwarded from New
York City.
I enclose Toshimi Horiuchi's request*, plus some Canadian
stamps and hope if this letter reaches you that you will
respond to him/her (?) promptly. I have also sent your
address, hoping this one is current, to Toshimi Horiuchi.
Two other requests were for Alan Fisher and Gregory D.
Cottrell. Unfortunately I know neither of them and so
could not help. If by chance you know them . . . . .
A fourth request was regarding Jose Tablada - - and
there I could at least say that he was a Mexican poet
who died in 1945 - - and the haiku used in Mainichi Daily
News was a translation from the Spanish original.
To other things - - I always enjoy your work when I see it - -
for instance, your Haiku Canada Sheet "Mr. Library Man."
GRIN.
I do collect haiku books, and I am wondering about any
of yours. Are any of those little early things available?
Even a xerox copy put together . . . . I would be glad to buy or
to trade (Casting into a Cloud; Southwest Haiku; Lines
for my Mother, dying, and 39 Blossoms are the ones available
and of those Casting . . . . is the most substantial). Anyway,
I would be happy to hear from you.
Enclosing also the current Information Sheet of HSA. Of
course we would always be happy to have you as a member
if you wished to join.
May this autumn season bring you joy,
Elizabeth Lamb
(handwritten note)
A friend keeps me more
than supplied with
Canadian stamps, so I'm
just putting in 'a bunch'.
(hand drawn smiley face)
*The request from Toshimi Horiuchi was permission to include my haiku:
Green garden hose
spouting
a rainbow
In his book Synesthesia in Haiku and Other Essays
copyright 1990, University of the Philippines Printery
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