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Haiku Wars

Haiku Wars

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Product Code:
574-01
ISBN
978-954-321-717-5
SKU
22.0002
Year
03-06-2010
Translation
From English: Svetla Hristova
Pages
144
Size
130/200 мм
Weight
0.164 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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This comic mystery takes a tongue-in-cheek look at real-life conflicts in the small world of international haiku. The protagonist, Poet, becomes an unlikely detective who must recover a precious manuscript that has gone missing during a haiku conference in New Orleans. Guided by his wise pet ferret Oscar (the book's furry narrator), he interacts with sundry poets, each with his or her own agenda—political and poetic. The resulting work is full of laughter and enlightenment ... a window into the quirky world of one-breath poetry and the "wars" that consume it.

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