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I read this book because the title jumped out at me from the shelves at my library, and I'm so glad I did. I love queer poetry, and I have a soft spot for haiku, so in many ways it felt like this collection was made for me (or at least, made for people like me). This collection is short, snarky, and at times laugh-out-loud funny. Derfner has mastered the art of the poetic turn, which is difficult to do in a form as short as the haiku. Often, the last line of a poem would take me by surprise and
I enjoyed this book,It was witty and silly. Go out and buy it.
checked it out at the library because i figured it needed to circulate some more. quick and quipping read.
I watch how I spell embarrassment now...
A few funny, a few sweet. Sometimes an embarrassment to the haiku, which can be so much more than this.
My favorite?Did you just say youThink Mansfield Park is boring?Get out of my house.
Haiku is the only type of "poetry" I like. In fact, I adore it. This book has some of the most amusing, entertaining, special and well-worded haiku I have ever encountered. I read my favorites repeatedly.Women togetherJoel Derfner casts a spellWitchy ways abound
Hilariously brilliant!!
Hilarious
A reader of this book can have a bit of fun with a bunch of tiny poems, each, of course, with a limited number of syllables on each line? But I take my beloved much haiku more seriously than does this bit of amusement, which is isn't nearly serious enough.
I liked it.I'm not wrighting a review in haiku, though.Wouldn't want to be too much like everyone else.Some of these are sad.
Ok, there may be times I probably shouldn't be allowed loose in a bookstore by myself. But how can you not pick up a book with a title like that & then, because it is so small, read it straight through while you are standing there? Because after all it was certainly very readable. And enjoyable. And it made me laugh. The only problem was it seemed like a great gift book, but I couldn't think of anyone to give it to - my gay friends/family would think I was giving it to them because I'd found a b...
Best. Haiku. Ever.At least, best English-language haiku ever.A sample from the amazing Mr. Derfner:"Frantically hidingPorno and Mapplethorpe prints--Mom is on her way."Plus, my copy is signed! Bonus!
So I'm at work, and my friend sends me this questionnaire that the author filled out, and it's amazingly witty and hilarious, so she's like, "Oh, I'll interoffice his book to you." I read it in one sitting (about 15 minutes), and when I was done, I nearly tossed it into the garbage can before I remembered that Gay Haiku is a book and not a copy of US Weekly. So now I have it sitting on my desk, but I'd really like to give it away, as I can't imagine I'll ever read it again.
I read this book in one go. The haiku are brilliant, hilarious, sweet, profound, accurate,... Joel Derfner is fantastic as a professional homosexual.
Absolutely hilarious, and while dated, still very relatable.
How could I NOT add this to my list of books to read?
