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Does Fish-God Know Paperback – October 15, 2012

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Modern western haiku written by a Japan Times award winning author. Poems that will bend your mind and tempt you to re-evaluate your sense of reality. A must for lovers of experimental short-verse poetry. The missing link between haiku and short-verse.
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    158 pages
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    English
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    October 15, 2012
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    5 x 0.34 x 8 inches
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    1479211044
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 15, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 158 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1479211044
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1479211043
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.34 x 8 inches
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If you love the writing, teachings, insightful analyses of Alan Summers you definitely want to add this to your collection, won't find harder hitting, more captivating & polished examples of micropoetry's scope, rich capabilities than within these pages! One of the tightest, most essential collections I've encountered, begging for multiple visitations and ponderance of each jewel of verse, deserves serious recognition and a spot on the contemporary English short form classics shelf beside the Dry Bones, Breaths, Field of Why!! ✨ Powerful, unique, special, and quite unforgettable literature every enthusiast of haiku and senryu, student or scholar could benefit enormously from exposure too. Highest recommendations!
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Jerome
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely a must read!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2023
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If you love the writing, teachings, insightful analyses of Alan Summers you definitely want to add this to your collection, won't find harder hitting, more captivating & polished examples of micropoetry's scope, rich capabilities than within these pages! One of the tightest, most essential collections I've encountered, begging for multiple visitations and ponderance of each jewel of verse, deserves serious recognition and a spot on the contemporary English short form classics shelf beside the Dry Bones, Breaths, Field of Why!! ✨ Powerful, unique, special, and quite unforgettable literature every enthusiast of haiku and senryu, student or scholar could benefit enormously from exposure too. Highest recommendations!
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Jerome
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely a must read!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2023
If you love the writing, teachings, insightful analyses of Alan Summers you definitely want to add this to your collection, won't find harder hitting, more captivating & polished examples of micropoetry's scope, rich capabilities than within these pages! One of the tightest, most essential collections I've encountered, begging for multiple visitations and ponderance of each jewel of verse, deserves serious recognition and a spot on the contemporary English short form classics shelf beside the Dry Bones, Breaths, Field of Why!! ✨ Powerful, unique, special, and quite unforgettable literature every enthusiast of haiku and senryu, student or scholar could benefit enormously from exposure too. Highest recommendations!
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Susan Beth Furst
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful! A Highly Creative Haiku Poetry Book!
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2020
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Does Fish-God Know, is a beautiful book, minimalist, a short intro, and then the haiku poems. One per page, white space, nothing to clutter the mind. Just the words, carefully chosen, Alan's words, his story, or ours... Alan's keen observations are expressed through rich imagery, as in this haiku from the book, one of my favorites.

hot sandwiches
the railing spikes collect
children's gloves

Ordinary moments become extraordinary, and no one does it better. Some of Alan's haiku have an ineffable quality about them. The words draw you in, but you don't quite understand what they mean. These mystery haiku are some of the most enjoyable because they invite the reader to solve the mystery in her own way. Is there a correct solution? I don't know. Perhaps Fish-God knows.
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JS
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2016
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Alan Summers is a Japan Times award-winning writer with over 25 years of experience. Does Fish-God Know is a remarkable collection of haiku and includes some of his award-winning haiku. Alan reminds us that haiku is an integral part of city life and re-establishes the importance and application of haiku in our modern world. I especially appreciate the variety in Does Fish-God Know (in both form and content) as Alan provides great examples of one-line haiku, two-line haiku, and three-line haiku, and also includes a haiku sequence: Shichi Fukujin, which introduces writers and haiku poets to the linked verse technique. I highly recommend this book for all readers and writers of poetry, haiku, and related literature.

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Rick Woodward
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2021
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One of the best I've read. Alan is an awesome poet!
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J. Grisetti
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the first books I have read in the ...
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2016
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One of the first books I have read in the modern haiku style, having isolated myself for years. Alan has introduced both the one and two line haiku and I intend to imitate him in a sincere flattery.
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Steven Rich
5.0 out of 5 stars 21st Century Basho
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2017
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Alan Summers is this century's Basho. Highly recommended.
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edwinlomere
5.0 out of 5 stars In addition to being a wonderful collection of Mr
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2015
In addition to being a wonderful collection of Mr. Summers' unique haiku, this book serves as a study in how to write in the genre. The scope of moods and insights is brilliant. The use and command of the poetic line is remarkable. These are the crystals of a focused poet, teacher, and life-long student in the art of haiku.
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Hansha Teki
5.0 out of 5 stars If we are to run with Dr. Richard Gilbert's ...
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2014
If we are to run with Dr. Richard Gilbert's H21 term then Alan Summer's "Does Fish-God Know" is already an exemplar of the same.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in India on January 1, 2017
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Alan Summers
5.0 out of 5 stars Touching Base with Gendai Haiku
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2013
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In the West the approach to gendai haiku from Japan is varied and numerous because it’s so new. It could be said that the haiku within this particular collection are "shakaisei" haiku (haiku of social consciousness) and therefore often different in methodology to shasei (sketching from nature) haiku endorsed by Shiki at the close of the 19th Century.

The main influence on my developing style of modern haiku is the combination of visceral physicality and social conscience by Japan’s leading modern haiku poet Tohta Kaneko whose work spans 75 years. —Alan Summers

“These haiku have been sorely missed. These are NEW haiku as they live and breathe on the back of tradition but are present in the world of the 21st century. Alan Summers makes use of the Western mind and a Japanese tradition to show that haiku has a place in the modern world, and will still have one if we are ready to keep our minds open to every experience and influence that befalls a human.
—Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Author of "Penguins/Pingviner" 2011

“Where are our dreams, where do they go in war? While everything changes nothing changes, and the gendai practitioners are keen to capture this disparity in our supposed civilisations utilising any contemporary phenomenon in their path.”
—Alan Summers
The G-force of Blue | Touching Base with Gendai haiku in memory of Shimada Seihô (1882-1944).
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