Far Beyond the FieldFar Beyond the Field is a first of its kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has created an overview of the way in which this enigmatic seventeen syllable form has been used and experimented with during different eras. At the same time, the reader is admitted to the often