In The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life–her own and others’–and turns them into brillian...
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Jan 12, 2012
Kasey
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I'm not sure why it took me so long to finish this book (months and months), because every time I picked it up I remembered how moved I was by so many of the poems, which are smart and have a deceptive ease to them, but which are so deeply felt and passionate at the core. The deeply-felt-ness sort of sneaks up on you, because the surfaces of the poems are so accessible... I'd be reading along, just enjoying their gracefulness, and then a line or a couple of lines would slap me in the face. The
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Nov 25, 2009
Terry
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I SO wanted to like her book Learning to Drive, and I just didn't. Reading this, I let out a huge sigh of relief as well of pleasure (and occassional rueful recognition). This was a pleasure to read, and in some ways makes an interesting companion to Updike's Endpoint.
Oct 15, 2009
Ellen
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I enjoy Pollitt's political writing, so maybe I should stick with that when it comes to her. This collection was underwhelming. There were a few that stood out, all from the third section: 'Epithalamion,' 'Two Cats,' and 'What I Understood,' but that's possibly because they spoke to me specifically ("Cats never mistake a/saucer of milk for a declaration of passion/or the crook of your knees for/a permanent address"; "But here we are, in a kind of post-imperial/permanent February
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Sep 15, 2009
Lindi
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The title poem drew me in and a couple others sealed the deal. I don't usually buy or read poetry, but every once in a while a poem hits me where I live, and "The Mind-Body Problem" hit my bulls-eye.
Apr 17, 2011
Susan
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Much here to admire and quote. Poems that I have remembered for years from a magazine: Night Subway. Some new poems I like very much -- The Old Neighbors, Visitors, Abandoned Poems, A Walk. Great clarity of language, precise images. As a whole though, the same chords again and again.
Apr 17, 2011
Leonard
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Excellent collection of original poetry by Pollitt who is a poet, essayist, and columnist for "The Nation," and who won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her first collection of poems entitled "Antartic Traveler."
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