Barefoot on the River Stones is the definitive collection of Denis M. Garrison's published poems, 1972-2018. This compendium makes all his internationally published verse available again. See his blog radicalbrevity.wordpress.com/.

What critics have said about Garrison's tanka:

"First Winter Rain is a welcome new poetry collection from a master of the tanka form in English." Amelia Fielden M.A., translator & poet, Australia

"Wide-ranging in subject matter, restless and probing in their inquiry of the human heart, Denis Garrison's tanka are somewhere near the fulcrum of all his efforts in poetry as editor, poet, and essayist. (He) gifts us all with a lifetime of experience in the highs and lows of a well-traveled soul." Michael McClintock, President, Tanka Society of America

"Denis M. Garrison is a key contributor to the development of tanka in English. His practical encouragement of other writers is widely recognised and appreciated." Beverley George, Editor: Eucalypt: a tanka journal