Haiku Guy - Tapa blanda

"Haiku Guy" begins a quintet of connected, short, haiku-pappered novels wherein a fictionalized Issa ("Cup-of-Tea") teaches the art of haiku to the young provincial poet, Buck-Teeth. In the course of his training, Buck-Teeth travels to Old Edo and contemporary New Orleans, falls in and out of love, considers the many schools of haiku, and learns what it is to be a poet.

David G. Lanoue is a professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. He is a cofounder of the New Orleans Haiku Society, an associate member of the Haiku Foundation, and president of the Haiku Society of America. His books include translations (Cup-of-Tea Poems; Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa and Issa’s Best: A Translator’s Selection of Master Haiku); criticism (Pure Land Haiku: The Art of Priest Issa), and a series of “haiku novels”: Haiku Guy, Laughing Buddha, Haiku Wars, Frog Poet, and Dewdrop World. Some of his books have appeared in French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Serbian and Japanese editions. He maintains The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa website, for which he translated 10,000 of Issa’s haiku.