Shiki, one of the greatest haiku poets of all time, published a treatise near the end of his life on the history and philosophy of excrement imagery in haiku. In 2022, the Poetry Foundation published a brilliant translation of “Haiku on S***” by Ikuho Amano and James Shea, which explores the relationship between poetic form and beauty: “In this jumbled world of ten thousand things, there are things that are beautiful, things that are ugly, and things that combine beauty and ugliness. However, if