Review "Students and connoisseurs of haiku would do extremely well to own and share this tour de force collection."- Allan Briesmaster, Verse Afire, 2014, 11:3."Although these poems are micro on the page, off it they just as, if not more, full as any haiku." Aubrie Cox, A Hundred Gourds, 2014, 3:4.Micro haiku is a splendid resource for anyone making the case for tighter craftsmanship, smaller poems! Lin Geary, Haiku Canada Review, 2014, 8:2.With remarkably little repetition of ideas or images, Swede hones his ku to the sharp edge of comparison, contrast, irony, personification, allusion, linguistic misdirection, paradox, and more.Michele Root-Bernstein, Frogpond: Journal of the Haiku Society of America, 2014, 37:3, p. 121. Product Description The 101 haiku in this book range from three to nine syllables. They were culled from decades of Swede s published work to show how the world's most brief poetic form can succeed when shorter than the typical English-language haiku which ranges from 10 to 14 syllables. It is Swede's hope that this knowledge will help to dispel the popular notion that a haiku should have 17 syllables written in three lines. About the Author George Swede started publishing poetry in 1968. Since then he has published 37 collections, including this one, and has edited eight poetry anthologies. His poems and prose have been translated into at least 22 languages, including two booklength works, one in Polish and the other in French. For more detailed information about George Swede's career as a poet, prose writer, editor, educator and administrator, go to Wikipedia, or to his personal website. Just key in his name with any search engine.