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208 pages, 6.5 x 7.5 inches
Four color cover, first edition
ISBN #978-0-9740895-8-4
Smyth-sewn bound
Design by Susan Kress Hamilton at Phineas, Portsmouth, NH

$24.95 (includes shipping and handling)

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See review in “Frogpond,” The Journal of the Haiku Society of America.

Well-known for Baseball Haiku (W. W. Norton, 2007), prize-winning haiku poet Cor van den Heuvel has collected his haibun about growing up in New England in the volume A Boy’s Seasons. Sure to be imitated, this extraordinary work extends the reach of haiku literature into the domain of contemporary memoir. Part narrative prose, part haiku, the work explores the world of the artist as a boy in small-town 1940’s New England. Gifted with a Joycean eye for the epiphany of the every-day, van den Heuvel, now in his late 70s, has brought American haiku into the literature of the 21st century.

Cor van den Heuvel is an editor, a translator and a haiku poet. He has published ten books of his own haiku. Past president of the Haiku Society of America, his honors include three Merit Book Awards from the Haiku Society of America, a World Haiku Achievement Award at the World Haiku Festival held in London and Oxford in 2000, and in 2002 The Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Prize for his writing and editing of haiku books. Editor of Baseball Haiku and three editions of The Haiku Anthology, he has been described in The Alsop Review as “an intelligent and unflagging spokesperson for haiku.” A Boy’s Seasons recalls his childhood in Maine and New Hampshire. He lives in New York City with his wife Leigh.

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