Neuware - Are right whales smart >BIOAlan Summers, author of 'Does Fish-God Know' >Alan Summers is this century's Basho. Highly recommended.>Ordinary moments become extraordinary, and no one does it better. >The use and command of the poetic line is remarkable. These are the crystals of a focused poet, teacher, and life-long student in the art of haiku. >Powerful, unique, special, and quite unforgettable literature every enthusiast of haiku and senryu, student or scholar could benefit enormously from . . .>Alan reminds us that haiku is an integral part of city life and re-establishes the importance and application . . . in our modern world.>Alan Summers makes use of the Western mind and a Japanese tradition to show that haiku has a place in the modern world . . .>One of the first books I have read in the modern haiku style, having isolated myself for years.-Joann Grisetti, author The Cutter, and In the Quiet Valley.

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Title: Summers, A: Whale's Alibi
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
ISBN 10: 9363545652
ISBN 13: 9789363545656
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
Weight: 104 grams

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The Whale’s Alibi is the first print-published haiku poetry collection, since 2012, by Japan Times award-winning writer Alan Summers. He is the “Call of the Page” founder, and main mentor: Writing and teaching haiku since the early 1990s. Alan has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize, and Best Small Fictions award, for his haiku, and haibun.

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Yomiuri Shimbun Japanese newspaper (2002)

His haiku “...humanises the city.”
— Takashi Nonin, Mainichi Daily News of Japan

"...you are one of the poets I have been most interested in. When I began composing haiku, I studied about English language haiku through your descriptive literature…I love your haiku style.”
— Keiko Izawa (Yokohama, Japan)

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