Description
This book is an event, and an unusual one, deep and quiet (coming as it were on cat’s paws, from outside all the hullabaloo) presenting, in condensed form, haiku fashion, a whole, open world.
Kenneth White, who has long enjoyed an extra-ordinary reputation as a highly influential author at the forefront of modern literature, has decided to gather together all his writings on haiku, a path he has long trodden and explored throughout his poetry, essays and ‘waybooks’.
White drew attention to haiku as early as his first book and later acknowledged Matsuo Bashō as a ‘great companion’ and a contributing factor in the elaboration of the theory-practice he invented and named Geopoetics, more and more seen as of the highest relevance in the current world context.
Erudite, elemental, big and bold
SEAMUS HEANEY
What other poet gives us such clarity, openness, purity of spirit, a north of the soul, a pathless path?
GARY SNYDER
