The World is a Heartbreaker - Softcover

Tjia, Sherwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552451534 ISBN 13: 9781552451533

Publisher: Coach House Books, 2005

Synopsis

"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. About Tjia's earlier books: '"Gentle Fictions" is a tender, playful and inspiring poetry collection...Tjia's poems are often silly, cute and irreverent, but artfully so' - "Matrix". '["Pedigree Girls"] is hilarious. It's also filled with raw, biting social criticism. [It's] the weirdest comix you'll read all year...discover the seductiveness of nihilism by way of an author with a sharp sense of humour' - "NOW".

About this title

About the Author:

Sherwin Tjia is a Montreal-based poet and painter. He has exhibited widely and works as a medical illustrator for McGill University. He is the author of Pedigree Girls (comic strips) and Gentle Fictions (poetry), both from Insomniac. Recently, he illustrated JonArno Lawson's The Man in the Moon-Fixer's Mask (Pedlar). A second Pedigree Girls collection was published by UK-based Saqi Books in spring 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1552451534
• ISBN 13: 9781552451533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160