Cat Haiku

by Deborah Coates

Book Overview

So you want to know what's behind my Sphinx-like stare and Mona Lisa smile? Now you can find out, because this book is more than just the cat's meow -- it's the purr-fect cat-alogue of feline wit and wisdom (as it should be; after all, I wrote it). It will tell you what I'm really thinking, and bring a grin -- or a grimace -- to your pitifully whiskerless face. So get a firm grip on your upholstery, and let the haiku begin! -- A. Cat Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446677507
• ISBN13: 9780446677509
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 5.7"

Customer Reviews

A psychiatrist reads Cat Haiku

CAt Haiku is a wonderful book. I have practiced psychiatry for 45 years and would have trouble explaining my patients as well as Deborah Coates explains her cats. She gets to the essence of being a cat- as far as any human being can. She also makes it fun to be in a room with a cat and to try to figure out which Haiku fits your cat on any given day or hour. William L. Clovis, M. D.

Fantastic, funny, and feline!

I found this book in a local 'art shop' and loved it then, but refused to pay full price for it. It was delightful enough to stay in my mind (2 years later), though, and now when I find copies on sale, I buy them to give them as gifts to my literate 'friends-of-cats'.

wonderful fun

The author knows cats (and their humans) very well, and has a genuine poetic gift. It is rare to find humorous poetry so well-constructed and so knowledgeable. I highly recommend this book to all cat-lovers.

Captures the Cat Personality

Cat owners will recognize their pets in these images. My daughter and I, cat lovers both, thoroughly enjoyed reading this book together.

Hilarious meditation

I have read of a Buddhist master who had his students laugh for three minutes each morning. He compared that time of laughing to be equivalent to an hour of meditation. Being a woman with "time" issues, I try to get as much healing laughter meditation as possible into my day. This book packs a powerful punch in that respect.If you have ever owned a cat or known someone who owned a cat, you will laugh out loud at many of these short poems based on the Japanese form of Haiku. The universal truths of cats -- and people -- are both loving and hilariously honest. It would make a perfect gift to treat yourself, a friend, your pastor, your rabbi, your veterinarian -- anyone who could use a good belly laugh.