{"id":5292,"date":"2006-05-02T18:31:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T22:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/05\/02\/haiku-wars-truce\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:57","slug":"haiku-wars-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/05\/02\/haiku-wars-truce\/","title":{"rendered":"haiku wars truce"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to two appointments that resulted in waiting-room <\/font><\/div>\n
reading opportunities — one with a mechanic, one with my <\/font><\/div>\n
primary care physician — I finally read David G. Lanoue’s<\/font><\/div>\n
latest haiku novel, Haiku Wars<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 We discussed the book <\/font><\/div>\n
at length <\/font>here<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"HaikuWarsCover\"\u00a0 Haiku Wars<\/font><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n

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Like Prof. Lanoue’s prior haiku novels\u00a0— <\/font>Haiku Guy<\/font><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2000; <\/font><\/div>\n
our <\/font>mini-review<\/font><\/a>), <\/font>Laughing Buddha<\/font><\/em><\/a> (2004) [both from <\/font><\/div>\n
Red Moon<\/font><\/a> Press], and <\/font>Dewdrop World<\/font><\/em><\/a> (online <\/font>for free<\/font><\/a>, <\/font><\/div>\n
2005) — Haiku Wars was fun and enlightening, and filled <\/font><\/div>\n
with fine haiku by\u00a0<\/font>Kobayashi Issa<\/strong><\/font><\/a>\u00a0and by David Lanoue.<\/font><\/div>\n
Here are a few from David Lanoue<\/font><\/a>:<\/font><\/div>\n

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the green jello-<\/font><\/div>\n
gives a wiggle <\/font><\/div>\n
earthquake<\/font><\/div>\n
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old friends<\/font><\/div>\n
in the rice field<\/font><\/div>\n
Mars and the moon<\/font><\/div>\n
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dark swirls\u00a0\u00a0 \"LanoueSelf\"<\/font><\/div>\n
in tombstone marble <\/font><\/div>\n
I want ice cream<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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old man in the waves\u00a0 <\/font><\/div>\n
looking like<\/font><\/div>\n
he lost something<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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the only cicada <\/font><\/div>\n
without a girlfriend . . .<\/font><\/div>\n
dusk<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
…… by David G. Lanoue<\/font><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from <\/font>Haiku Wars<\/font><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2006)<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"HaikuWarsCoverN\"<\/font><\/div>\n

…….. potluck<\/font><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If you’ve been following the great Curmudgeon “instant cult classic<\/font><\/a>“<\/em>\u00a0puffery <\/font><\/div>\n
debate, see our <\/font>sunday buffet<\/font><\/a>\u00a0update.\u00a0 The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law<\/font><\/em><\/a><\/font><\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to two appointments that resulted in waiting-room reading opportunities — one with a mechanic, one with my primary care physician — I finally read David G. Lanoue’s latest haiku novel, Haiku Wars.\u00a0 We discussed the book at length here. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Haiku Wars\u00a0 Like Prof. Lanoue’s prior haiku novels\u00a0— Haiku Guy\u00a0(2000; our mini-review), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1nm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12664,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}