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  <title><![CDATA[Vampire Haiku]]></title>
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  <default_description>Vampire Haiku is a poetry journal written by a vampire whose life spans for centuries, starting during the birth of America.  The undead poet was turned into a vampire hundreds of years ago and has lived through (and possibly caused) some of America&#8217;s defining events.  Although many of the haiku stand on their own, the hundreds of haiku also flow together to tell one story of being a vampire, living during the entire history of America, and forever longing to find and be with the woman who turned him into a vampire many years ago as he crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower.  The haiku are often hilarious, repulsive, oddly romantic, and bizarre &#8211; all written in short three lined poems following the traditional 5,7,5 syllable structure.  The poems in his haiku journal takes you through numerous wars, a certain tea party in Boston, living the high life during the Great Depression, a couple Woodstocks, corrupting Emily Dickinson, hanging out with Davey Crockett&#8230; and drinking lots of blood from lots of necks.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">14</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">8</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Vampire Haiku</original_title>
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  <average_rating><![CDATA[3.81]]></average_rating>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ryan Mecum]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 21 19:01:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 21 20:13:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[somewhat disappointing. the reason the zombie one was so freaking hilarious is because zombies are these lumbering, inarticulate, limb-dropping monsters, and the thought of them, in their free time, composing elegant little haikus, makes laughter in me. vampires dont have the same contrast, so the l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64450072">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 13 23:06:49 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 28 16:34:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sucked (get it?).]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Vanessa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 29 10:18:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Got this hot off the press and read it in one sitting, laughing and &quot;ewww&quot;ing the whole time. That's a good thing. This small, delightfully gross book by the (surprise!) Zombie Haiku author Ryan Mecum provides even more 5-7-5 gems of pop culture and gore. <br/><br/>I was having a bad day...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65413724">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Received this as a gift from my new friends, Ben and Erin Vore.  I was fascinated by Ben's copy, and the author is a friend of Ben's so he gave me his copy.  Now I'll go order ZOMBIE HAIKU.  My favorite:  <br/><br/>She explains to me<br/>that wood through my heart will kill.<br/>I don't think th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66196402">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[so, i'm a bit of a purist, but the vernacular used by the author does not fit the timeline, so i couldn't give it a higher score.  funny though]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this one better than Zombies. It made me chuckle and didn't leave me sad, but it's still monster poetry with all the darkness that implies. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68996873]]></url>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Its very short, the poems are sometimes comedic. I like the way it is writen. ]]></body>
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    <review id="74972476">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as Zombie haiku...although still quite thrilling.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even funnier than anticipated! This is a very creative book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It sounds like a very good book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very clever.]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Christina]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Vampires just aren't as fun as zombies but vampires can be in all the right places throughout history. I applaud the great effort it must have taken to span the centuries in haiku from the vampire's perspective. I'm just not that creative or patient. Again, the design of the book is fun and im...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62843987">more...</a>]]></body>
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