Haiku Enlightenment is a delightful, often playful look at haiku as both a poetic craft and a pathway of awakening -- for poets, seekers and creative rebels.

Gabriel Rosenstock has given us a rich collection of insights, distilled from a lifetime dedicated to the art and practice of poetry, on stepping into inspired moments. Using a generous selection of contemporary and classical haiku, he explores ideas of creativity and perception, encouraging us to calm the restless mind, notice what is overlooked, explore the world around us, and fully encounter each glowing moment.

From such moments, haiku -- and enlightenment -- emerge.
Haiku Enlightenment, Gabriel Rosenstock, Poetry Chaikhana, Paperback, 269 pp, $16.95

Gabriel Rosenstock is an Irish writer who works chiefly in the Irish language. A member of Aosdana, he is poet, playwright, haikuist, tankaist, essayist, and author/translator of over 180 books, mostly in Irish. Born in Kilfinane, County Limerick, he currently resides in Dublin