The Whale's Alibi

Are right whales smart?
>BIO
Alan Summers, author of "Does Fish-God Know"
>Alan Summers is this century's Basho. Highly recommended.
>Ordinary moments become extraordinary, and no one does it better.
>The use and command of the poetic line is remarkable. These are the crystals of a focused poet, teacher, and life-long student in the art of haiku.
>Powerful, unique, special, and quite unforgettable literature every enthusiast of haiku and senryu, student or scholar could benefit enormously from . . .
>Alan reminds us that haiku is an integral part of city life and re-establishes the importance and application . . . in our modern world.
>Alan Summers makes use of the Western mind and a Japanese tradition to show that haiku has a place in the modern world . . .
>One of the first books I have read in the modern haiku style, having isolated myself for years.-Joann Grisetti, author The Cutter, and In the Quiet Valley