This Tanka Journey: A Tanka Poetry Chapbook – Collection of Experimental American-Japanese poetry

This Tanka Journey: Poems Bridging Cultures by Susanna Hutcheson In This Tanka Journey, award-winning author Susanna Hutcheson takes readers along an insightful sojourn combining the crystalline poetry of medieval Japan with modern American perspectives. Tanka, the ancient five-line form akin to haiku, becomes a bridge joining the universal and the personal in this transcendent collection. With delicate yet powerful imagery that deftly captures the human experience, Hutcheson illuminates both the fleeting beauty of nature and the depths of the emotional landscape. Her tanka explore love, loss, joy, mortality, and all the dualities of life through the quiet profundity of a poetry style that has endured for over a millennium. Whether contemplating a dragonfly’s shadow or a relationship’s demise, Hutcheson mines the ineffable and crafts moments into small eternal gems that linger in both mind and heart. This Tanka Journey is a unique transcultural immersion for poetry lovers and a window into an ancient Japanese tradition reborn and thriving in modern American letters. Masterfully composed, these poems vibrate at the spiritual frequency where East and West become one.