Project Description

Of This World: A Poet’s Life in Poetry

Edited by Richard Lewis
Photographs by Helen Buttfield
Dial Press,1968

A collection of the poetry of the 18th century Japanese haiku poet, Issa, arranged as a poetic retelling of his life. The beauty of the natural world is captured in luminous photographs that accompany and enhance Issa’s enchanting and moving expression of his encounter with all of the living world.

96 pages • hardbound • $10.00 • Order Form

….an arresting collection of beautiful haiku with illustrations that are camera poems.

—Horn Book

With sensitive introductions by Richard Lewis, the poet’s own life of imagery, and Helen Buttfield’s flower-cool photography, this book is an exhilarating experience, for all ages.

— The Plain Dealer

The black and white photographs by Helen Buttfield show sensitivity and have a lyrical quality that conveys the artist’s innate awareness of Issa’s intention in his work.

—The Miami Herald

This beautiful biography-in-poetry of the Japanese poet, Issa, also uses the beauty of the real world captured by an artist with a lens as the perfect illustration of a poem.

— San Francisco Chronicle