Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Robert Hass and Garry Gay

This was the YT Retreat at Asilomar that had Robert Hass as the featured guest. He is shown signing a copy of his book The Essential Haiku for Garry Gay. Garry is well known in haiku circles, having been active in (or a founder and/or president of) Haiku Poets of Northern California, Haiku Society of America, American Haiku Archive (California State Library) and Haiku North America.


A light mist
we skip to the playground
my daughter and I

Garry Gay

from The Long Way Home


*****

Children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants
  
Kobayashi Issa
translated by Robert Hass

The Essential Haiku, ECCO, 1994, page 155


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