bookshelves: poetry---poetics
Boy, I'm glad I read this. Schuyler doesn't seem to be anthologized as much as O'Hara, Ashbery, and Koch are. I don't see why not. "A blue towel" is on my list of all-timers. The long poems were wonderful; I read them all in one sitting. [Well I took a break during "Morning of the Poem" (60 pages):]. <3<3<3<3 ]]>
bookshelves: poetry---poetics
This man is a genius: amazing vocabulary and dexterity of tone. Only he could make a sexualized Santa Claus poem gruesome and heartbreaking. Ditto the poem inspired by Hook. Awesome. ]]>
bookshelves: poetry---poetics
I guess I expected a bunch of U2 songs. Pleasantly surprised by how weird and ambivalent this book is. ]]>
bookshelves: poetry---poetics
Pretty much every poem in the first section is amazing, especially [triptych:], which is absolutely beautiful, if a bit atypical of the book. The rest of the poems are intensely dark and funny, fragmented, suggestive. ]]>
bookshelves: drama
I think it's trying a little too hard to be The Glass Menagerie. Kramer says as much in his introduction. The Normal Heart was autobiographical, too, but the story there was more focused on the present and more compelling because of it. ]]>
bookshelves: drama
Hard to rate a book like this. Very compelling as a play. Almost like a Greek tragedy. I was reminded of Antigone. ]]>
bookshelves: poetry---poetics
I think this book shows Powell establishing his style. It's really good, but not as powerful as the later two in the series. ]]>
bookshelves: memoir
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bookshelves: drama
This is just as good read as performed. It's fast, smart, dense, funny, and weirdly moving. Good for Shakespeare enthusiasts and laypersons. ]]>
James
read and liked a piece of writing titled "How to Hear Tortillas"
by Christineporeba
"Set them softly in a sink,
wet like ground
where the wheat grew.
Do not fold or fill.
Let rest a while
beside a door
the color of midnight
with a scene
of d" ...read more »
"Set them softly in a sink,
wet like ground
where the wheat grew.
Do not fold or fill.
Let rest a while
beside a door
the color of midnight
with a scene
of d" ...read more »