(Oplus)rs Haiku

Dan Schwerin’s first full-length collection of haiku has been justly hailed as a brilliant debut. “His astute and mordant sense of humor pervades his poems, which can be enjoyed for this quality alone. This would be to miss their larger significance. For only when they are assembled is it clear how they represent a position in the world: a willingness to take things as they are but not without an awareness that things could be otherwise.