Rise, Ye Sea Slugs!:
A Theme from in Praise of Olde Haiku, With Many More Poems and Fine Elaboration
Paraverse Press 2003 [Amazon] / A Danny Yee book review
Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! is a collection of a thousand haiku about sea cucumbers (namako), given both in Japanese and in translation....the book divides up the haiku by aspects of sea slugs: frozen, featureless, protean, do-nothing, agnostic, mystic, scatological, helpless, meek, ugly, lubricious, just-so, tasty, slippery, chewy, drinking, silent, melancholy, stuporous, nebulous, and cold, with a large "sundry sea slugs" chapter for everything else.
