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Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! 1,000 holothurian haiku . . . |
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| Published by paraverse press | | October 31, 2003 |
| ISBN: 0974261807 | | With almost 1000 haiku, of which less than a dozen have been previously translated, this book is far and away the deepest study of a single haiku theme (kigo) ever published, yet it is also a light-hearted romp through science, metaphysics and literature reminiscent of Borges, Burton, Carlyle, De La Mare, Montaigne, and Sterne. Each of the 21 chapters is devoted to a metaphorical category such as Cold Sea Slugs, Featureless Sea Slugs, Lubricious Sea Slugs, Meek Sea Slugs, Melancholy Sea Slugs, Protean Sea Slugs and Sleepy Sea Slugs, while scores of minor sub-themes, including such disparate categories as analytical sea slugs, dream sea slugs, imagist sea slugs, medicinal sea slugs, [mole] exorcist sea slugs, lava sea slugs and waste-treatment engineer sea slugs, are more lightly essayed in a 150-page Sundry Sea Slugs section. Following Blyth, the original Japanese is provided for all of the poems. The title comes from a challenging haiku by Issa (#219 in this book) expressing his (and the author's) affection for the lowly, meek and plain. 480 huge pages but only $25! (i became my own publisher to keep the book reasonable)
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Animals
, Anthropology/Archaelogy
, Humanities
, Literary Criticism
, Marine Subjects
, Metaphysical
, Multicultural
, Nature and Environment
, Philosophy
, Translation
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