Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection

by Chad Davidson and John Poch

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312356072
• ISBN13: 9780312356071
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Griffin
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

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!

Hockey Haiku

Best book of all time So funny we laughed outloud High five for haiku

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?!?"

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.