JUST ENOUGH

Poems by Dennis Maloney

Poet and translator Maloney, the long-time publisher of White Pine Press, one of America's most respected small presses, has written a series of 64 tanka as if in the voice of a Japanese hermit poet in a hermitage near Kyoto, Japan. These small gems are inspired by such classic hermit-poets as Basho and Ryokan.

How hard it is

to take

what is given

and say yes,

just enough.

4 1/4 X 7, 96 pages, $12.00

"JUST ENOUGH is exactly what the title implies: A taste on the tongue--brief, full, satisfying, with a resonance that tickles and informs the imagination long after the reader closes the page and steps forward into the daily doings of life."--John Brandi.