false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171739998m/117528.jpg 117528 3 <p> <br>"There are only two passions in art; there are love and hate-with endless modifications."-Theodore Roethke </p> <p> <br>At his death, Theodore Roethke left behind 277 spiral notebooks full of poetry fragments, aphorisms, jokes, memos, journal entries, random phrases, bits of dialogue, commentary, and fugitive miscellany. Within these notebooks, Roethke allowed his mind to rove freely, moment by moment, moving from the practical to the transcendental, from the halting to the sublime. </p> <p> <br>Fellow poet and colleague David Wagoner distilled these notebooks-twelve linear feet of bookshelf-into an energetic, wise, and rollicking collection that shows Roethke to be one of the truly phenomenal creative sources in American poetry. </p> <p> <br> <b>From "A Psychic Janitor":</b> </p> <p> <strong> </strong> <br> <em>I'm sick of fumbling, furtive, disorganized minds like bad lawyers trying to make too many points that this is an age of criticism: and these, mind you, tin-eared punks who couldn't tell a poem from an old boot if a gun were put to their heads . . .</em> <br>Cover art by United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.</p> 113153 1974 Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke total:46|5:22|4:17|3:4|2:3|1:0| 46 196 66 5 117528 1556592485 9781556592485 44 3 4.26 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171739998m/117528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117528.Straw_for_the_Fire_From_the_Notebooks_of_Theodore_Roethke 4 0 false Mon Nov 19 19:41:58 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 19:48:21 -0800 2007 Exhilarating, complex poetry and comments organized by mood or tone. 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