By Rolando Pérez

Chanoyu for the Seasons / Chanoyu para las estaciones is a bilingual four-volume cycle of poetry and prose organized around the seasons and inspired by the Japanese tea ceremony, chanoyu. Written in English and Spanish, the quartet brings Japanese poetic and aesthetic traditions into conversation with contemporary Western experience. Its four volumes—Chanoyu for Winter /Chanoyu para el invierno; Chanoyu for Spring/Chanoyu para la primavera; Chanoyu for Summer/Chanoyu para el Verano; and Chanoyu for (the) Fall/Chanoyu para el otoño (en caída)—approach the passage of time through different poetic forms and sensibilities.