Haiku! Gesundheit : An Illustrated Collection Of Ridiculous Haiku Poetry

Rating:
Summary: Zero Stars in the sky for this one...
Review: What IS this? I looked at this title thinking I could use
it in my classroom. This is a waste of words. Isn't it
something that an author (and a large publisher) would think
that because one can count .... one, two, three, four...
wow..all the way up to SEVENTEEN (syllables)that HAIKU
poetry it makes?? What was everyone thinking.
Pass on this one. A rip off plain and simple.

Rating:
Summary: Ridiculous Is Right
Review: With the abundance of fine, original haiku that has been produced in English over the past thirty years, it's sad to see a major publisher like Simon and Schuster launch this unfunny, self-indulgent mess. The imagery is merely gross, the jokes old, the witticisms tired and vacuous, the quality of imagination on a par with the last schoolyard cliche. Venokur's work is neither haiku nor poetry but it does get high aces for achieving a kind of ridiculous waste of paper and ink. The same energy could so easily have gone into a collection of real merit (and of other poets' work), turning kids on to the world around them as only haiku can do. . . but that is another book.