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James Tipton

Titles published by MET Press:

Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror
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All the Horses of Heaven / Todos los Caballos del Paraíso
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James Tipton lives in the tropical mountains of central Mexico, in the town of Chapala, with his wife Martha and his daughter Gabriela. He first began to study haiku and tanka in the mid-sixties while eating sack lunches in City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. For more than forty years he has been publishing haiku and tanka and its related forms, including senyru and kyoka.

Magazine credits include American Tanka, Atlas Poetica, frogpond, Haiku, Hummingbird, Lynx, Modern English Tanka, Modern Haiku, Prune Juice, still, The Tanka Journal, Tundra, and Woodnotes. Anthology credits include The Haiku Anthology, ed. Cor van den Heuvel (Doubleday Anchor, 1974); The Haiku Handbook, by William J. Higginson (McGraw-Hill, 1985); Aphrodite, by Isabel Allende (Harper Collins, 1998); Haiku: A Poet’s Guide, by Lee Gurga (Modern Haiku Press, 2003); Erotic Haiku, ed. Hiroaki Sato (IBC, 2004); and The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, edited by Jim Kacian and others (Red Moon Press, 1996, 2007, and 2008).

His books of haiku include Bittersweet (Cold Mountain Press, 1975); Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror (Modern English Tanka Press, 2008); and Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village/Lavando platos en el antiguo pueblo, a bilingual collection of 100 “three-line poems” about Mexico and Latin America, published in Mexico (Ediciones del Lago, 2009). A collection of his poetry, Letters from a Stranger (Conundrum Press, 1999), with a Foreword by Isabel Allende, won the Colorado Book Award.

His work has been translated into a dozen languages including Japanese and Chinese.

All the Horses of Heaven / Todos los Caballos del Paraíso was nominated for The Pushcart Prize in 2009.

Email: spiritofmexico@yahoo.com

The Pedestal Magazine has published an excellent review of James Tipton's collection of tanka, All the Horses of Heaven. The review by James Owens is very insightful and an interesting read on its own merits. Read it online at The Pedestal Magazine.