"The View From Jackass Hill" is a book in which the poems both eulogize and celebrate. They weep and sing. They sing of and mourn for family, friends and poets: Keats, Wyler, Shinder, Carruth, and others. Geographically, the book is rooted in the east--New York, New Hampshire, Maine--and travels west, to Colorado. Thematically, it is a delineation of loss, both personal and national: the death of loved ones, the death in war. It is, in short, a lament for the erosion of the American Dream. Yet it is a book that insists on "Making Up with Milton." "Here is a poet with a real voice, brave and...
"The View From Jackass Hill" is a book in which the poems both eulogize and celebrate. They weep and sing. They sing of and mourn for family, friends ...
How does Judith Monroe's poetry differ from her contemporaries? A reader has said that her poems last, popping into one's mind unbidden but always welcome, and that her poetry does what the best poetry has always done which is to find the universal in the particular. From the pages of Searching for Jenny Moses, her poetry sings out. The narrative style fits the subjects she writes of, colorful, quirky and touching. She invites, and in some cases, dares the reader to experience tragic loss. The lyrical poems, however, tend to be snapshots of nature's beauty. Monroe has characterized her work...
How does Judith Monroe's poetry differ from her contemporaries? A reader has said that her poems last, popping into one's mind unbidden but always wel...
Drew may have lived many years among the Yanks, but his Mississippi roots are having their say, shining through in every irreverent/reverent syllable. Once you pick this book up, you won t be putting it down any time soon Nancy White THE DOWN AND DIRTY REDNECK HUNGERS FOR THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY I ve always been afraid of burning to death, but with you I was like a tree in October, on fire with a shitload of leaves just before the north wind ripped them loose and sent them ass over teacup earthward. Girl, if only you would come again driving down Main...
Drew may have lived many years among the Yanks, but his Mississippi roots are having their say, shining through in every irreverent/reverent syllable....
Just as an orchard grower, when harvesting its fruit, discards the tart, the bitter, the overripe and the stunted, so, too, any poet tries to judiciously reject less than sterling poems when assembling a selected collection. Pastoral Habits is a selection of carefully chosen poems from fifty years and five volumes of poetic harvests.
Just as an orchard grower, when harvesting its fruit, discards the tart, the bitter, the overripe and the stunted, so, too, any poet tries to judiciou...
