Juan Jose Tablada - A Day

<p class="font_8">José Juan Tablada visited Tokyo as a journalist: while there, he started writing Spanish language haiku, in a form he called “<em>Synthetic Poems</em>”. He then spent the summer of 1919 in the town of La Esperanza in Columbia, avoiding his official duties, to paint exquisite miniatures and write haiku about the plants and animals he saw. He combined these to create an artist’s book, A Day, a portrait of a day in his life there. This edition is the first complete English translation in the original illustrated format, rather than a section of a collected works, which enables the reader to appreciate the poetry in the form Tablada wanted.</p>