Stroker, a publisher of chapbooks, is the distributor and copublisher of "2000 Japanese Poems for the Year 2000," a voluminous collection of chapbooks, 15 in all, translated by Howard S. Levy.
Love is the focus. The introductory volume is the essay titled "The Psychology of Love as Depicted by Ancient Love Poets," with a preface and drawing by Irving Stettner, and sumi-e paintings by Akira Yamauchi. For students of poetry it supplies material (as Arthur Waley said in regard to another Levy book) for "future general workers in both anthropology and sexual psychology."
The rest of the set comprises classic poetry, including Izumi Shikibu and Saigyo, and senryu humorous verse; and "Korean Love Poems" (translated from classical Chinese). All volumes are bilingual, often with Japanese calligraphy, aiding the student of Japanese literature, and many are explicated by Levy's fine essays discussing the themes of the poets.