Chanoyu for Summer Chanoyu para el verano

Chanoyu for Summer / Chanoyu para el Verano is composed of prose pieces and their accompanying poems, following the tradition of Bashō's haibun, the hybrid genre he brought to its highest expression in his celebrated travel classic, The Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi).

As delicate yet durable as fine tea cups, the poems in Rolando Pérez'S seasonal series offer quiet observation

and reflection in the howling chaos of the modern world. The exquisite care with which he crafts them allows for surprising, delightful bursts of knowing. In Chanoyu for Summer they're embedded like jewels in prose memories. Appropriately for the season, these are about coming and going - but also about the stillness between:

No frogs, no ripples.

And not even goldfish swim

beneath the water.

Listen. What do you feel?

--John Strausbaugh, author of Duchamp Takes New York

Chanoyu for Summer/Chanoyu para el verano is the third volume of the quartet, Chanoyu for the Seasons/Chanoyu para las estaciones.