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The World is a Heartbreaker
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The World is a Heartbreaker

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1552451534
ISBN-13 9781552451533
Publisher Coach House Books
Imprint Coach House Books
Country of Manufacture CA
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 3rd, 2001
Print length 160 Pages
Weight 178 grams
Dimensions 13.30 x 13.30 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification: Poetry by individual poets
Ksh 1,800.00
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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. This title presents a collection of 1600 pseudohaikus.

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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