Is Two, Becomes One: The Love Book

Poetry. 49 lavishly reproduced watercolor collages. A fine haiku poet writes a poem every month for 10 years to his artist wife. She responds to each one with a painting. This is the result, a beautifully conceived tribute to a love of many years, their eleventh collaborative effort of this kind. Thomas Fitzsimmons, well-known for creating a major series of translations of Japanese poets, lived for 10 years in Japan with his wife Karen, who studied there with a Japanese master of oriental brush painting.