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MAY SKY
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Found in May Skies: There's Always Tomorrow: A History and Anthology of Haiku in the World War JI Internment
Camps for Japanese-American Citizens, compiled, translated, and prefaced by Violet Kazue Matsuda de Cristofora.
Published by Sun &Moon Press, Los Angeles, 1997.
© Oxford University Press, Inc. 2002. Assigned to Oxford University Press 2010.
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