Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat
The Haiku and Prose of Hosai Ozaki
Hosai Ozaki, translated by Hiroaki Sato
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The first and only collection in English of the brilliant and troubled haiku poet Hosai Ozaki.
Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat presents colloquial haiku and occasional essays by an eccentric and disturbed personality who spent his last lonely years at a small Buddhist temple off the coast of Shikoku. Burdened by a lifetime of self-destructive habits, Ozaki's free-verse haikus alternate between desperation and serenity. Award-winning haiku poet and former president of the Haiku Society of America Cor van den Heuvel provides the foreword.
Contributor Bio
Hiroaki Sato is one of the leading translators of Japanese poetry into English, with numerous books and awards.
