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HAIKU: The Art of the Short Poem, a film by Tazuo Yamaguchi. The haiku cited or read in the film are published in this book/DVD combo as a haiku anthology featuring contemporary English-language haiku writers. In August 2007 Tazuo attended the Haiku North America conference, where he filmed over 50 hours of interviews and events with contemporary haiku poets, concluding with the Haiku North America head-to-head haiku competition. As Taz writes in the introduction to this book/DVD: Each poet brought me their wealth of passion, information and knowledge, and timeless insights from their snowball stash they had collected through their life s sleigh ride of love and interest in haiku.