The Scare Crow: A Collection of Haiku & Senryu

The scarecrow, an ephemeral figure, serves as a poetic device to convey the gamut of human emotions, ranging in scarecrow haiku, for example, from the comic to the tragic.Most haiku result from an inner response to outer experience. In scarecrow haiku, which for the most part are imaginary, the process is reversed. The poet is able to express his or her feelings by using this human surrogate, the scarecrow, to cover the range of humor and pathos.In this collection from contemporary poets and early Japanesse masters, most of that range is represented. Read more