The Dreaming Room: Modern English Tanka in Collage and Montage Sets

The Dreaming Room: Modern English Tanka in Collage and Montage Sets was edited by Michael McClintock and Denis M. Garrison as a companion piece to their earlier anthology, The Five-Hole Flute: Modern English Tanka in Sequences and Sets. The Dreaming Room provides further examples and explorations into the literature of tanka collage and montage sets—a compound literature having broad scope and unlimited potential for dealing with the many layers and complexities of human experience, thought, and emotion. As "Queen" of short form poetry in English, the contemporary tanka is seen again to lend its shape and rhythms meaningfully to diverse viewpoints, philosophies, and the human drama. • Back to the Selected Books page.