American Haiku joins an already impressive body of work by San Francisco poet Jonathan Hayes, following on his most recent Nippon (2012). In American Haiku, we're in San Francisco with the poet, walking the streets, living the city, right with him, always in that haiku moment transfiguring these poems, a deep sense of wabi-sabi. This one's worthy to be on that special shelf with Jack Kerouac's Book of Haikus. As hard as rock in the rain, as soft as long hair in the wind. - Don Skiles author of Miss America"