The wind and I play tug-of-war with my new kite. The wind is winning. When you’re a guy, nature is one big playground—no matter what the season. There are puddles to splash in the spring, pine trees to climb in the summer, maple seeds to catch in the fall, and icicles to swordfight with in the winter. Nature also has a way of making a guy appreciate important stuff—like how many rocks it takes to dam up a stream, or how much snow equals a day off from school. So what kind of poetry best captures these special moments, at a length that lets guys get right back to tree-climbing and kite-flying? Why, guyku, of course!

Perhaps the first novel to take as its subject the appreciation and crafting of haiku, this is the story of Buck-Teeth, a provincial poet and fictitious student of the Japanese classical haiku master Issa, who, in the course of his training, travels to ancient Edo and contemporary New Orleans, falls in and out of love, considers the many schools of haiku, and ultimately learns what it is to be a poet. Along the way we are offered gentle lessons on haiku and what we might put into it, how it and we got this way, and what it all might mean.

In the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan developed the haiku, an unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines. Now, in One Hundred Great Books in Haiku, David Bader has applied this ancient poetic form to the classics. From Homer to Milton to Dostyevsky, the great books are finally within reach of even the shortest attention spans!

Haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form using just seventeen syllables, divided into three lines of 5-7-5 respectively. And traditionally, the subject of Haiku is nature. Forget tradition. GUY HUMOR is about sex, women, sports and beer, mostly. Larry Rogak -- a "guy" if there ever was one -- has taken Haiku and PIMPED IT into a vehicle for GUY HUMOR. No more poems about sunsets, lotus blossoms and dragonflies. HAIKU FOR GUYS has poems called SEX WITH A DOG; BREASTS; BEER AND PISS; and THE ZEN OF TAKING A DUMP. Here, get a load of this one: LESBIANS They like to watch sports Wear flannel shirts, look at chicks Heck, they're just like us! Right away you can see this is no ordinary book of poetry. Best of all, Larry Rogak explains to GUYS how to use this book to GET OVER WITH CHICKS. This is the PERFECT book to read while pinching a loaf, or just loafing. And won't "she" be impressed to see you reading a poetry book! HAIKU FOR GUYS is not only fun to read, it may help to disguise the pig that you are.

In your hands is a poetry journal written by an undead poet, recounting his firsthand experience during the zombie plague. Little is known about the author before he turned into a zombie, but thanks to his continued writings in this journal - even after his death - you can accompany him from infection to demise. Through the intimate poetry of haiku, the zombie chronicles his epic journey through deserted streets and barricaded doors. Each three-line poem, structured in the classic 5-7-5 syllable structure, unravels a little more of the story. You'll love every eye-popping, gut-wrenching, flesh-eating page!

Pimp My Walker is brimming with 60 Haiku poems that celebrate the cardinal aspects of growing old, softened only with hilariously appropriate illustrations. Pimp My Walker is an owner's manual for aging with humor, whether you are this or that side of 40 or are simply slipping to the far side of 80. I've a pacemaker But whenever I sneeze hard The channel changes.

The Millennial War left a sullen void where civilization once stood. But then the whales began their song -- a mysterious song that resounded throughout the polluted seas and told an ancient heartbreaking tale that moved the survivors to revive and honored ritual . . .