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JuxtaOne features new articles by Ian Marshall ("Jouissance among the Kire: A Lacanian Approach to Haiku"), Alexander B. Joy ("Aesthetics of Discipline: Transtromer’s Prison Haiku"), Charles Trumbull ("Shangri-La: James W. Hackett’s Life in Haiku"); archival articles by Haruo Shirane ("Beyond the Haiku Moment: Basho, Buson, and Modern Haiku Myths"), Susumu Takiguchi ("Karumi: Matsuo Basho’s Ultimate Poetical Value, Or was it?"), and Jim Kacian ("The Shape of Things to Come: Form Past and Present in Haiku"); an interview of Ito Yuki by Udo Wenzel ("Forgive, But Do Not Forget"); book reviews by Michael Dylan Welch and Jerry Reed, Jr.; a bibliography of what belongs in a haiku scholar’s library; and haiga (haiku painting) from Guy Beining, Ion Codrescu, Annette Makino, Ron C. Moss, Marlene Mountain, Ellen Peckham, Alexis Rotella, and Lidia Rozmus, with commentary by Stephen Addiss. JuxtaOne is the print version of Juxtapositions 1.1. A journal of haiku research and scholarship, Juxtapositions is published by The Haiku Foundation.