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Haiku Guy

Haiku Guy

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Product Code:
336-01
ISBN
978-954-321-339-9
SKU
24.0008
Year
07-05-2007
Translation
From English: Svetla Hristova
Pages
152
Size
130/200 мм
Weight
0.2 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Eastern Fiction Books, Haiku, 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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Published in 2000, Haiku Guy is the first of my haiku- peppered novels. It tells the story of Buck-Teeth, a provincial poet and fictitious student of Issa (Cup-of-Tea), who in the course of his training travels to Old Edo and contemporary New Orleans, falls in and out of love, considers the many schools of haiku, and ultimately learns what it is to be a poet.

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