{"product_id":"bashos-haiku-journeys-paperback","title":"Basho's Haiku Journeys - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFreeman Ng\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCassandra Rockwood Ghanem\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecipient of the 2021 Northern Lights Book Awards Poetry Category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHaiku tell the story of the poet Basho and the diaries he wrote while walking throughout Japan in the 1600s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho practically invented the haiku. He's most famous for his travel journals. But how did he come to be such a traveler in the first place?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis delightful volume--composed entirely in haiku based on the poet's written travelogues and illustrated with vibrant hand-painted scenes--tells the true story of Basho's decision to abandon his comfortable city life and of the five great journeys he then took across the length and breadth of Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFreeman Ng\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eJoan\u003c\/em\u003e, a YA retelling of the life of Joan of Arc that Horn Book Award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones called, \"An intimate meditation, textured and ingenious,\" and of \u003cem\u003eWho Am I?, \u003c\/em\u003e a personalizable picture book that comes in 20 different versions. Starting in 2010, Freeman wrote and posted one haiku every day for five years, and in 2016 published \u003cem\u003eHaiku Diem 1\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of the first year's best haiku.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCassandra Rockwood-Ghanem\u003c\/strong\u003e is a San Francisco Bay Area-based poet and illustrator. Her award-winning visual art has been exhibited in journals and galleries throughout the United States and beyond. Her poems and creative nonfiction have been published in \u003cem\u003eThe New Delta Review, Rip Rap, Hawaii Review, The Lifted Brow, For Women Who Roar, The Write Launch\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. Cassandra holds a BA from California Institute of Integral Studies and an MFA from California College of the Arts. This is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 40\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9.9 x 7.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50408435515629,"sku":"9781611720693","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/bashos-haiku-journeys-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}