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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Coach House Books
Publication date March 11, 2005
Pages 160
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781552451533
ISBN-10 1552451534
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.25 by 5 in.
Weight 0.70 lbs.
Original list price $12.95
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The World Is a Heartbreaker inaugurates a new subgenre: imposter poetry. This collection is a set of 1600 pseudohaikus, bite-sized chunks of poetic goodness shotgunned at the distracted masses.

What’s a pseudohaiku? It’s the poetry of pure indulgence, a three-liner without the constraint, the pretension or the 5–7–5 syllable form. The subject matter? Relationships, cats, insecurities – themes recur and build into a kind of non-linear narrative.

These micropoems are easily digestible yet remarkably acute, a catalogue of scattered thoughts and pointed observations that go down like potato chips – betcha can’t read just one.

Sometimes sexy, sometimes scandalous, sometimes sentimental, but always three lines long, these pseudohaikus are the future of poetry in a world awash with sound bites, news clips, catchphrases. There are no pleasures like the guilty ones.



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9781552451533 | details & prices | 160 pages | 5.25 × 5.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $12.95
About: The World Is a Heartbreaker inaugurates a new subgenre: imposter poetry.
With Elaine Kirn | Tch edition from McGraw-Hill College (March 1, 1988); titled "Etc Level 2: English in Everyday Life, a Competency Based Reading/Writing Book"

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