The World Is a Heartbreaker

By Sherwin Tjia

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552451534
• ISBN13: 9781552451533
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 5.3"