Haiku Guy (Soffietto Editions)
David G. Lanoue is a professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. He is a cofounder of the New Orleans Haiku Society, an associate member of the Haiku Foundation, and president of the Haiku Society of America. His books include  translations (Cup-of-Tea Poems; Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa and Issa’s Best: A Translator’s Selection of Master Haiku); criticism (Pure Land Haiku: The Art of Priest Issa), and a series of “haiku novels”: Haiku Guy, Laughing Buddha, Haiku Wars, Frog Poet, and Dewdrop World. Some of his books have appeared in French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Serbian and Japanese editions. He maintains The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa website, for which he translated 10,000 of Issa’s haiku.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.