Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman

by L.E. Sissman, Peter Davison (Editor)

Stated Atlantic Monthly Press 1st Edition, 1986. Hardcover. 294 pgs. In good condition. Dust Jacket shows minor wear & small tear on lower front. No marks, notes, labels, folds nor creases.

Genres: Poetry

294 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

Reviews

[Janée Baugher · Rating 5 out of 5]

This author uses rhyme/meter and conversational diction in his poems on death/dying. This book is highly accessible in that readers need not be privy to elements of craft to appreciate this collection. Recommended to me by physical therapist poet, Timothy Kelly.

[Brian · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read this book because I'm doing some research on Boston poets around 1950. Sissman was at Harvard with Hall, Bly, Rich, Ashbery, Koch, O'Hara, and Peter Davison, among others. Had heard his poems were lost treasures and hoped to find something like a fresh voice with elements of O'Hara, Larkin, and that annoyingly misogynist poet who's been in the New Yorker a lot lately (can't remember his name off hand), but was disappointed to find mostly witty formalism that doesn't even live up to the most average of Davison's work.