Entre Ríos Books, paperback
Publication Date: September 23, 2025
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A sleepy boy runs three toy train cars over the soft ravine of his legs as the carriage hums through the mountains. Outside, the road bends and disappears into mist.
In This Single Road, poet and painter Alan Chong Lau opens his Kyoto notebooks to us— A6 Campus notebooks filled with quick sketches, poems, and fragments of daily life. Many of these moments return as watercolored postcards sent to friends. What begins in private observation becomes a quiet act of generosity, a way of keeping connection alive through art.
Echoing the haibun tradition of Bashō and Santōka, Lau catches the ephemeral: a bowl of udon steaming in the mountains, the faint twang of a shamisen along the river, or a single yellow leaf outside a door. This Single Road is less a travelogue than a record of engagement—intimate and playful—a lifelong conversation with place, with practice, and with Kazuko, his companion in life, art, and in seeking.
