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Border Crossings : Walking the Haiku Path on the International Appalachian Trail, Paperback Book

Border Crossings : Walking the Haiku Path on the International Appalachian Trail Paperback

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"The International Appalachian Trail runs north from Mount Katahdin seven hundred miles to the end of the Gaspe Peninsula.

Inspired by Basho, Ian Marshall hiked it for six summers, probing the poetics of haiku while exploring a vast and beautiful wilderness little known in the US.

Marshall is an engaging trail companion and a superb story teller, with a self deprecating wit and sharp intellect that spice up his observations and ideas.

Like Basho, he finds the miraculous in the common and elevates the humble walk into a spiritual practice, sprinkling his narrative with lovely original haiku that seem to have condensed in the moment, like droplets of dew.

Backpackers will appreciate his pungent descriptions of life on the trail, and ecocritics will savor his abundant insights on poetry, nature, and culture.

This lively book serves up a classic blend of high adventure, literary pilgrimage, and self discovery.

It tastes as tart and fresh as wild rasp berries." -John Tallmadge, past-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and author of The Cincinnati Arch: Learning from Nature in the City

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