Author Description

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.