Reviews for The Haiku Year

The average rating for The Haiku Year based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-26 00:00:00 Enry Bianca The poetry novel entitled " The Haiku Year, " written by several authors, is a combination of haiku poems written by a group of 7 friends who decided to write one haiku a day for one year. Thus, becomes the idea of the novel itself. I have never actually read a poetry book before this one and I've always seemed to turn away from them because I figured they would be boring, too complex to understand, or hard to relate to. I'm very glad I picked up this book since it changed my view on poetry novels in general. I enjoyed seeing how the people writing the poems ( the friends ) changed over time and as each season or holiday passed. You can see their true philosophies and their deepest passions but, you can also see little things they plucked out of their day and wrote a poem about, like perhaps a boy on the street they saw. In most cases, I could understand what the writer was trying to convey and could picture the deeper meaning behind it and see the thought that was put into that three line haiku. Although throughout the year that the friends decided to do this, they were traveling and usually not together, you can tell that they were still thinking about one another. I loved the concept behind this novel and I admired the friends reasoning for actually doing this in the first place. From now on, I won't judge poetry books before I get a chance to read them myself. I highly recommend this read for any poetry lovers ( or non-poetry lovers! ) who are looking for a compelling, detailed, delightful, and quick read!

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-21 00:00:00 Maria Armand 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!