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Frog Poet

Frog Poet

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Product Code:
938-01
ISBN
978-619-152-061-9
SKU
07.0001
Year
13-06-2012
Translation
From English: Svetla Hristova
Pages
120
Size
130/200 мм
Weight
0.137 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Eastern Fiction Books, Modern Novels

David G. Lanoue

David G. Lanoue

About himself:I'm a translator of Japanese haiku, a teacher of English and world literature, a writer of haiku and "haiku novels." I earned my B.A. at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska (1976), then went on to complete the M.A. & Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1977, 1981). My dissertation topic was musical symbolism in 14th-century English, French and Spanish poetry. …

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This book continues my cycle of "haiku novels" in which characters in Old Japan appear alongside their counterparts in contemporary New Orleans—including the author himself. People from both eras who have popped in and out of the wildly unpredictable plots of Haiku Guy, Laughing Buddha and Haiku Wars—including the poets Buck-Teeth, Kuro, Mido and Shiro; the daimyo-turned holy man Kaga; and the heart-crushing Lady Plum—all appear in these pages of a story about an incredible frog who just might be a reincarnated haiku master.

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