Deep Travel - At Home In The [Burning] World is a book of contemporary haibun by the poet Dane Cervine. Underlying this series of journeys-through the great Midwest of America, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, a bit of French countryside, Italy, then later through New England-is an experience of pilgrimage. The Japanese poet Basho's famous book Narrow Road to the Interior explored both "interiors" of countryside and heart-mind. Ancient Zen poets grounded their work in Nature itself, the passing seasons infiltrating words with blossom and decay. Today, climate change appears as the ubiquitous background in many travels. In Deep Travel, this includes a cataclysmic fire in California at the author's ancestral home, unfolding at the end of his journey in drought-stricken Turin, Italy. The quest: to find a sense of home in this fragile, yet resilient, world.

"I love the way you’ve taken the haibun back to its origins with Bashō—what a brilliant and perfectly executed form for your observations and musings. It’s such a rich book. Some of your haiku are so beautifully apt, little marvels, and one of my favorites is the one inspired by Ocean Vuong:

      I am a book—of bone,

      raft and river

 That seems to me emblematic of the entire book and your intents—to offer insights and responses without any trace of self-importance, and then to return to shore. That you include Lorca and Pessoa as your guides, that all your learning and reading and previous travel feed so naturally into what it is you are seeing and doing, that your descriptions are so vivid and your haiku so accomplished—what an absolute gem this book is!" —Lynne Knight, author of The Language of Forgetting