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Author name: John Poch, Chad Davidson

: Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN num: 9780312356071
ISBN number: 0312356072
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 128
Printing Date: September 19, 2006
Publishing house: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 1171823
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin



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Product Description:
The greatest collection of hockey-related poetry this or any house has ever published, and a watershed moment in American letters.
 
Hockey haiku is the most rarefied of the haiku genres, and it represents the perfect union of graceful brutality, ordered chaos, and the blood that courses through our veins...and onto the ice.
 
Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection is full of poems that embody to perfection hockey’s unique harmony of beauty and violence. For example:

Zamboni bumper:
Don’t laugh---It crushed the leg of
the Little Leaguer.

And it turns to the questions we as a hockey society are reluctant to answer:

Conflict--How can I
pledge my allegiance to two
national anthems?




Customer Reviews
User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - A holiday must for all the hockey fans in your life
Hockey Haiku is a clever and zany collection of poetry. It's the perfect stocking stuffer or gift item for those hard to buy hockey fans...Why buy your boyfriend another NHL jersey or subscription to ESPN the magazine? Expand his mind a little and get him this collection, full of funny and witty haikus about hockey!


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Hockey Haiku
Best book of all time
So funny we laughed outloud
High five for haiku


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - This book rocks my coffee table...
The genius/craft of this work stands on it's own. My favorite part is watching my friends do a double take on the coffee table. "Hockey Haiku??? What the puck?!?"


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - The difinitive work on hockey heilgeschicte
No one, at least not anyone with half the wits of the most brilliant of the Winnipeg school, doubts the importance and influence of hockey Haiku in understanding and articulating the ontological and epistemological etiology and development of what we know as modern hockey. However, until now the history of this development has been a subject of mere conjecture. In this groundbreaking, epic work Poch and Davidson trace this development and its expression in Haiku verse and history from its vestigial beginnings to the modern day. No one who wishes to grasp the depth and breadth of what hockey is about can afford to neglect this book. Defining. Definitive. Comprehensive. Compelling.

One might expect a rejoinder on these pages from the Winnipeg school, but as this is a book of words and not pictures it will be rendered, necessairly, incomprehensible to them. So, don't hold your breath. Just buy the book.


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