The World is a Heartbreaker

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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.

Whats a pseudohaiku Its the poetry of pure indulgence, a three-liner without the constraint, the pretension or the 575 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 cant 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.

Author Bio

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.