Poems for Paula

by Frederick Morgan

Frederick Morgan's "Poems for Paula" is that rare thing in an intricate, interlocking collection of lyric and meditative poems that celbrate one of the true-life, comtemporary love stories (that of the author and his co-editor at "The Hudson River, " Paula Deitz) of the last twenty-five years. Inventive, formal, wise, wry, and intellingent, these poems honor and explore the enduring, mythic power of love, and of lives taking clear and solid shape in its forge.

72 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1995

Reviews

[Tristan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, this was good, but unexceptional. The third section "New York" was probably the best, and all of the poems in the book were pretty good, but were also generally unimpressive. For the first time in many collections of poetry, no particular poem or poems stood out as exceptional (which happens even with collections where I love basically every single poem in the book, like Sylvia Plath's The Colossus and Other Poems) and that lowered my appreciation of the work as a whole. All in all, it was a decent but slightly flat group of poems that were all about the love Mr. Morgan felt/feels for his wife, Paula. Not bad, but I wouldn't really recommend it unless you are desperate for an easy verse read.