In these poems, we come to know a different side of the acclaimed novelist Susan Minot. We find her awake in the middle of the night, contemplating...
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Apr 06, 2011
Poems 4 A.M. by Susan Minot, Knopf, New York 2002
Susan Minot reinvents sex, love, and self-revelation in her collection of poems, Poems 4 A.M. Minot’s collection evokes emotion and relates to readers because of its universal subject matter: romance, growing up, and moving on. The collection is divided into nine chapters, each relating to a different place ranging from Boston to Rome. Each chapter gives insight to Minot’s life in relation to the place it represents. For example, the first More...
Susan Minot reinvents sex, love, and self-revelation in her collection of poems, Poems 4 A.M. Minot’s collection evokes emotion and relates to readers because of its universal subject matter: romance, growing up, and moving on. The collection is divided into nine chapters, each relating to a different place ranging from Boston to Rome. Each chapter gives insight to Minot’s life in relation to the place it represents. For example, the first More...
Oct 12, 2010
Tatum
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The hours before dawn reminds one of early morning scuffles to the kitchen, brewing a cup of coffee, and reading a morsel of random newspaper fluff to snap the average human synapse into work mode. Susan Minot contrasts this and other romantic depictions of dawn; sleepless nights are Minot’s detoured slighting of dawn description. Her collection of poetry is divided into nine sections; each is given the title of significant states, countries, and cities. This categorization of the birthing p
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Feb 16, 2011
Rebecca
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Susan Minot’s Poems 4 A.M., was a collection of poems written about her memories as a child, the places she traveled, but mostly, they were about love.
If it wasn’t about the love she had, it was about the love of which she yearned. Her poems were written in a variety of ways. There were short, choppy, one word lined poems, and lengthy, long winded lined poems. Every poem had a rhyme scheme. The array of poems kept the read fresh and captivating. I was not getting tired of reading the same More...
If it wasn’t about the love she had, it was about the love of which she yearned. Her poems were written in a variety of ways. There were short, choppy, one word lined poems, and lengthy, long winded lined poems. Every poem had a rhyme scheme. The array of poems kept the read fresh and captivating. I was not getting tired of reading the same More...
Feb 16, 2011
Kristin
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I was interested in Susan Minot as an author after reading “Lust” from Lust and Other Stories. I noticed she wrote from a woman’s perspective that was focused on an exaggerated emotional response to the idea that men do not love as woman do. I saw it as a one sided viewpoint on how men and woman interact with love and relationships. Although I didn’t agree with what she was say exactly, her raw emotion drew me in and made me want more from her.
Poems 4 A.M shows her breathtaking search for
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Dec 23, 2011
Zeeba
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One star for the two or so poems that kicked me in the gut in interesting ways; another for the three or four others which were "pretty good." Love Susan Minot, but overall this was not very good.
Dec 17, 2009
Lara
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ABAB rhyme scheme in anything from this century is usually a turn off for me, I'm afraid.
'Evening' was far more poetic.
'Evening' was far more poetic.
Feb 21, 2008
Audrey
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I would have given this two and a half it I had the option, because I did like several of the poems very much.
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