Cat Haiku - Hardcover

Coates, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712679537 ISBN 13: 9780712679534

Publisher: Century, 2001

Synopsis

The cat has been with us since time began - think back, for example, to ancient Egypt. Enigmatic, independent, surprising, single-minded, loving - cats are all these things and impose themselves on our lives.The haiku is an ancient and honourable Japanese verse form - three lines, 17 syllables, encapsulating a vision of the essence of the thing, scene or person being written about.CAT HAIKU presents cats as you've never seen them before. In a series of brilliant vignettes, Deborah Coates gets inside the minds of our cats and comes up with some surprising revelationsI yowl to the moon;I am king of the night. HearMe and weep, Fluffy.I figure if IStare at this door long enough,You will let me out.You will never look at your (or anyone else's) cat the same way again

About this title

Product Description:

(This humorous collection of 150 haikus captures the psyche of cats, and distills the essence of kitty behavior in the five-seven-five scheme of classic Japanese poetry. The poems are accompanied by line drawings)

Review:

"hilarious collection of wise feline words" (Your Cat)

About this edition

• Publisher: Century
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0712679537
• ISBN 13: 9780712679534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192