1. General observations: Historical background -- Whitman, Longfellow, and Japan -- Turn of the century: Japonisme -- In search of Japanese values -- 2. Amy Lowell and Adelaide Crapsey: Lowell and Japan -- Cinquains of Crapsey -- 3. Ezra Pound: Pound's interest in the Orient -- Pound and Fenollosa: Cathay -- Nō plays and The cantos -- Seven lakes canto -- 4. Kenneth Rexroth: Phoenix and the tortoise -- Beyond the mountains -- San Francisco Renaissance -- Heart's garden/the garden's heart -- Later poems -- 5. Gary Snyder and other poets: Postwar United States and Japan -- Richard Wright and his haiku -- Richard Wilbur's genie in the bottle -- American haiku -- Allen Ginsberg and haiku -- Gary Snyder in Japan.