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  <title><![CDATA[Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)]]></title>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had read bits and pieces of Roethke's poetry, but I have a much broader sense of him now.  In subject matter he compares to Whitman and his association with the land and all that means.  He is more formal, though, probably more in the line of Yeats, and he likes to compare himself to guys like Chr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3960579">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's only so much a person should write about flowers and dirt and slugs.  Senor Roethke has crossed that line.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love him. don't you? this little collection is adorable too.<br/><br/>i love<br/><br/>&quot;Heard in a Violent Ward&quot;<br/><br/>In heaven, too,<br/>You'd be institutionalized.<br/>But that's all right,--<br/>If they let you eat and swear<br/>With the likes of Blake,<br/>And Christoph...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26351166">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[especially love his later poems]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazingly spare and yet brimming with gorgeous imagery and a fully-engaged poetic heart. His descriptions, the elegance and economy of his language, are just stunning.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Early stuff is really boring. &quot;Notes&quot; section is half great, half amazing. What isn't self-pitying seems to be too self-consciously &quot;fun&quot;.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Roethke's poems continually strike a chord that rings beautiful in my heart.]]></body>
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