The Haiku Year Book

One of those "it is what it is" book projects--it's friends who sent haikus to one another, and who admit in this book that none of them were ever meant to be published or read by anyone else. because of this, some of the poems are little more than shallow musings or bad jokes--but some of them are actually really quite stunning, with unexpected layers of meaning the more you reflect on them.

furthermore, there's something about the similar images and themes used across poems that together paint a larger picture, and allow me to imagine what the intertwined lives of these friends must have been like at that point in time. overall, a pretty good collection!