Turquoise Milk: 500 Haiku from the Japanese

Few poets have had as much impact on cultures other than their own as Ban’ya Natsuishi. He has published in dozens of languages and scores of countries, and has made friends for himself and for haiku everywhere he has traveled. This volume gathers together the best of these peregrinations from the past twenty years into a single volume and makes them available in English, some for the first time, as well as Japanese. In it you will meet some old friends—some of the poems which have excited, exacerbated and charged the haiku world— as well as many that will be new to you. You will discover the several preoccupations of the poet, and will travel widely with him. You will recognize why Ban’ya Natsuishi is one of the most challenging poets working in any genre in the world today. Read more