Sangita Kalarickal

Through the Looking Glass

Arts & Literature

“Anna Cates’s Through the Looking Glass is a delightful romp on paths of the haikai form, through kingdoms of fantasy. En route you will find nooks and crannies reflecting favorites like Carroll, Tolkien, the Grimms, and others, exploring fairy tales and legendary worlds. All along you will encounter outstanding speculative senryu and haiku. Her haibun and tanka prose set a new standard of excellence in speculative form poetry in particular, and genre writing in general. An enjoyable book, you will return to it, like I did, multiple times to rediscover and savor different aspects of the journey.”