Myron’s haiku are sparse, highly disciplined and written directly from his experience. Each can be read as a whole poem, but four of the five sections in this collection also loosely combine to tell stories. The fifth consists of occasional haiku and includes 33 haiku each dedicated to specific friends.

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Opening this book at random, I reread a poem that seems simply to capture an idyllic moment. The poet stands on a steamship, an apple in her hand.

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While the essays are primarily discursive, The Routledge Global Haiku Reader can also be read as an informal anthology aimed at unsettling conventional and often highly defended notions of what haiku is.

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