Author Description

<p><i>Tanka Schön</i> is Ray Spitzenberger's first book of poems made up exclusively of tanka and kyoka. His previous book of poetry, <i>Open Prairies</i>, includes a variety of different poetry forms, traditional and contemporary. With his great love for Japanese poetry forms, Ray is indebted to those American tanka and kyoka poets who paved the way for wide acceptance of Japanese poetry forms written in English. Ray is also proud of his ethnicity as a Texas Wend, a factor that adds a new twist to his tanka and kyoka.</p>