Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear a Hat

By Ozaki Hôsai and Hosai Ozaki

The first and only collection in English of the brilliant and troubled haiku poet Hosai Ozaki.

Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat presents colloquial haiku and occasional essays by an eccentric and disturbed personality who spent his last lonely years at a small Buddhist temple off the coast of Shikoku. Burdened by a lifetime of self-destructive habits, Ozaki's free-verse haikus alternate between desperation and serenity. Award-winning haiku poet and former president of the Haiku Society of America Cor van den Heuvel provides the foreword.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880656051
• ISBN13: 9781880656051
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Details of Simplicity.

Whilst this is an account of lonliness, it certainly isn't one of despair. Ozaki's time spent alone gave him an extrordinary eye for detail and respect for the world around him. Pebbles are 'alive', flowers 'nod' to him. This book will calm and enchant by taking you to the nature of things with the gentlest of direction. It can make things come alive.