Haiku Mama: (Because 17 Syllables is All You Have Time to Read)

Categories: Poetry

I'm afraid this book is going to get lost in the shuffle, because it's so physically tiny, and because there are probably a lot of people not intrinsically interested in reading haiku about motherhood.  This new book by Kari Anne Roy is awfully funny, though, as she uses haiku to document her baby's growth from infancy to toddlerhood.  The first poem, for example:

Sniffing newborn's head,

a primal urge takes over--

try not to eat him.

This would make a great baby-shower gift for a hipster mom-to-be.  (Actually, you'd need to buy your own copy: giving library books as gifts is considered bad form at baby showers.)