Dewdrop World
Though its first draft was written second (after Haiku Guy and before Laughing Buddha), Dewdrop World occupies the third position in my line-up of haiku novels—in the order of my finishing them. Plot-wise, it stands apart from the first two, though most of my characters recur. In Dewdrop World we follow the drunken Poet in Green, Mido, on an adventure in Old Japan in which he finds himself to be the unlikely protector of a runaway geisha. Meanwhile, in modern New Orleans, the narrator has his own share of problems, as he has fallen in love (lust?) with the mysterious girlfriend of a drug lord.
With equal parts comedy and tragedy, fact and fiction; Dewdrop World is a story about life, love, loss, Buddhism, the power of laughter, and the art of haiku.
At present, I am revising this novel.
Also by David G. Lanoue...Kobayashi Issa Archive