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A review by thejenjineer
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden
4.0
I was wondering, going into this book, which of the poems would make me cry. It was the shortest and the (deceptively) simplest poem that did it. Hokku by Fukuda Chiyo-ni. Exactly seven words, I counted. Then I read it again after I finished the whole volume. Cried again.
The poet was a mother who lost her young son. She wrote:
"Dragonfly catcher,
Where today
have you gone?"
And it just broke my heart.
The poet was a mother who lost her young son. She wrote:
"Dragonfly catcher,
Where today
have you gone?"
And it just broke my heart.