Rhode Island Notebook
by Gabriel Gudding
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Read in July, 2008
recommends it for:
fellow lovers of fountain pens; Gabe's students, Those wanting something differnt
This prose poem book--transcribed directly from a notebook handwritten on the road--accounts both the thoughts and cross-country journeys of the author as he travels between his daughter in Rhode Island and his home in Normal, Illinois.
This is very much Gabe in book form. He'll follow a lovely insight on family or sadness by the time and highway route or a thought on the war in Iraq or an odd thought on Nancy Raegan. Written for his daughter, it's personal and at times indulgent. How coul...more
This is very much Gabe in book form. He'll follow a lovely insight on family or sadness by the time and highway route or a thought on the war in Iraq or an odd thought on Nancy Raegan. Written for his daughter, it's personal and at times indulgent. How coul...more
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Read in January, 2008
recommends it for:
everyone, especially people
About halfway home. Wow. Okay, first of all, you can't get an idea of this book by skimming over a random page at the bookstore. When I did that, I was kind of..."eh". But then I thought, what the hell, I'll try it anyway. When you start from the beginning and really get into it, you sort of learn how to read it. The choppy notebook style that at first might seem awkward and clunky becomes fun once you get used to it, which doesn't take very long. It's definitely a page-turner. ...more
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Read in July, 2008
When we drive, we have time. Often while we go places it is easy to forget that we have time to think, see, worry, and experience the distance between us and our destination. Rhode Island Notebook is a study in what happens when we are alone in a car with only our destination ahead of us. The book reflects on the experience of fatherhood, divorce, and the changing tide of the national psyche, all observed on repeated trips between Illinois and Rhode Island.
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Read in June, 2008
What a great book--a book-length poem of multiple road trips and the fragmentative (is that a word) thoughts that occur along the way.
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Read in January, 2008
reading this now. its the "jimmy corrigan" of poetry: hilarious and devastating.
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Read in April, 2008
Oh man. If all poetry read like this it wouldn't be so marginalized.
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