William Warriner

This is a small book, a quick read, that gives witty remarks related to business, each in the form of a haiku. The haiku isn't bad, but it's not substantially better than what you can get with a little searching around the web. So I'd say, save yourself the money and spend it instead on upgrading your modem. Warriner seems to interpret the principal of immediacy in haiku as requiring "A twist. A punchline, if you will." The result, in my opinion, is haiku which is more intellectual than inspirational. The poems generally lack strong imagery and a sense of "being there'. The haiku moment is lost in favor of an instant "surprise".… (mere)