The first edition of The Painting Stick , gathering poems written in 1991-2002, was published by Peter Robinson's Pine Wave Press in Sendai, Japan, in 2005.
A few of the poems have been revised for this expanded edition, which also includes eleven previously uncollected poems written during the same period.
The book begins with a series of prose pieces, which are followed by poems with various European (especially Italian and Greek) settings, poems about the artists J.