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linneahedvig's review
3.0
Haikus about Conor Oberst and American Apparel. Oh my. Sexy, in a sad, non-dancing kind of way.
mmkkll's review
4.0
Sure, it's a novelty, but it has to be taken with a grain of salt. These poems poke fun at the culture of self-important hipsters, and the results are pretty hilarious.
heypretty52's review
4.0
clever and a little snide. I love it! "i know, that's life, but it sucks to hear songs you love selling minivans"
xterminal's review
2.0
Siobhan Adcock, Hipster Haiku (Broadway, 2006)
I keep hoping that one of these novelty-haiku books will actually get haiku right. I keep being disappointed. That said, some of them have been funny while still being senryu. This is not one of them. Poking fun at emo kids while your collection has an overarching sense of existential angst makes me think that, perhaps, an important point was missed somewhere.
“He is midtown, but
Loves to call stuff 'sick' and 'tight'.
Bless his little heart.”
and
“Only three labels,
Merge, Sub Pop, and Matador,
deserve your money”
are pretty typical selections. If 150 pages of the same appeals to you, by all means go for it. **
I keep hoping that one of these novelty-haiku books will actually get haiku right. I keep being disappointed. That said, some of them have been funny while still being senryu. This is not one of them. Poking fun at emo kids while your collection has an overarching sense of existential angst makes me think that, perhaps, an important point was missed somewhere.
“He is midtown, but
Loves to call stuff 'sick' and 'tight'.
Bless his little heart.”
and
“Only three labels,
Merge, Sub Pop, and Matador,
deserve your money”
are pretty typical selections. If 150 pages of the same appeals to you, by all means go for it. **
otterno11's review
3.0
Retro review
"I don’t blog daily
Such foolish consistency
Says 'I have no life'”
Of course, the truth is I would totally blog daily if I wasn't such a procrastinator!
A stylish and humorous take down of hipsterdom, circa 2006, is the collection of tongue in cheek haiku by Siobahn Adcock, which also seems to be among the first hipster books to be published based on a blog, a tradition which seems to be the norm these days. Adcock's casual poetry is like a self-deprecating time capsule of pop culture references, name dropping a lot of familiar stuff, websites, bands, authors, shops, all that stuff. Of course, it is all pretty dated, as well, but that seems to be the fate of hipster studies- things barely last a year before being abandoned.
The stereotypes remain, though, and Adcock's work is a nice reflection of this juxtaposition between the sincere and the ironic that exemplifies the culture, with an insider's understanding of the ridiculous nature of the genre. I certainly got a lot more of the references now than when I first read back in '07.
"You know you’ve arrived
When you are mentioned in the
Wikipedia"
Remember a time when we might still call it "The" Wikipedia?
"I don’t blog daily
Such foolish consistency
Says 'I have no life'”
Of course, the truth is I would totally blog daily if I wasn't such a procrastinator!
A stylish and humorous take down of hipsterdom, circa 2006, is the collection of tongue in cheek haiku by Siobahn Adcock, which also seems to be among the first hipster books to be published based on a blog, a tradition which seems to be the norm these days. Adcock's casual poetry is like a self-deprecating time capsule of pop culture references, name dropping a lot of familiar stuff, websites, bands, authors, shops, all that stuff. Of course, it is all pretty dated, as well, but that seems to be the fate of hipster studies- things barely last a year before being abandoned.
The stereotypes remain, though, and Adcock's work is a nice reflection of this juxtaposition between the sincere and the ironic that exemplifies the culture, with an insider's understanding of the ridiculous nature of the genre. I certainly got a lot more of the references now than when I first read back in '07.
"You know you’ve arrived
When you are mentioned in the
Wikipedia"
Remember a time when we might still call it "The" Wikipedia?
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