Write like Issa: A Haiku How-To - Softcover

Lanoue, David G.

 
9780991284078: Write like Issa: A Haiku How-To

Synopsis

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) was a brilliant master of Japanese haiku. This instructional book offers six lessons on how to write haiku based on examples from Issa and from twenty-first century poets who are following his creative path.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

David G. Lanoue is a professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana and a former president of the Haiku Society of America. His books include haiku translations, haiku criticism, and haiku novels. He maintains the Haiku of Kobayashi Issa website, for which he translated 10,000 of Issa’s one-breath poems.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.