Fresh Scent: Selected Haiku

by Lee Gurga, M. Brooks, Randy (Editor)

This book is a collection of 135 haiku by one of the leading haiku poets in the United States.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Lee Gurga (born July 28, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is an award-winning American haiku poet. In 1997 he served as president of the Haiku Society of America. He was the editor of Modern Haiku magazine from 2002 to 2006, and is the current editor of the Modern Haiku Press. Gurga lives in Lincoln, Illinois, where he works as a dentist. Also involved in the translation of Japanese haiku into English, Gurga cites Matsuo Bashō, a Japanese poet from the Edo period, as one of his main appreciations. One of his most known haiku is about graduation day for students and is presented in his book Haiku: A Poet's Guide

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great haiku collection - I can tell he's from central Illinois (in the best way)!

rows of corn
stretch to the horizon—
sun on the thunderhead

rural interstate—
all the other cars
exit together

Nowadays, this is such a hard book to find. I had to borrow it long-distance - but if I could own it, I totally would! (Brooks Books' publications are consistently top notch. You can really tell that editors - Randy Brooks, with the help of Robert Spiess and Charles Trumbull - took the time to narrow down and showcase Lee Gurga's best work.)