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34 ratings, 4.35 average rating, 3 reviews
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published
1990
by Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt)
binding
Hardcover, 112 pages
isbn
0822936372
(isbn13: 9780822936374)
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Read in November, 2005
You will find very little self-involved twaddle in this collection, as Wojahn's imagination allows him to find much more interesting subject matter than himself to write about. The bulk of this collection is a series of Rock 'n' Roll sonnets that show Wojahn to be an extremely skilled formalist-- his language is so smooth and conversational that you can easily miss their construction. The poems themselves are fabricated stories that intersect with iconic pop culture events, personas and symbols ...more
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recommends it for:
uh...I don't know, my friend Diana, I guess, though she's likely already read it
I especially like the poem that marries a Jimmy Cliff song to a description of electrojacking a tiger. I think it's called, Raja in Babylon.
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recommends it for:
jukebox heroes, vinyl junkies
I think we can say seminal here without a self-aware cocked eyebrow.
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