Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies

by Charles Harper Webb

In Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies , Charles Harper Webb's poetry goes anywhere, memorably presenting the human animal in all its wondrous foolishness and beauty. No issue of contemporary life, be it mundane pop culture or metaphysical high art, (not even poesy) escapes his rapiers. Charles Harper Webb was a rock guitarist for fifteen years and is now a licensed psychotherapist and professor at California State University. He has written five books of poetry, including Liver , which won the 1999 Felix Pollak Prize, and Reading the Water , which won the S.F. Morse Poetry Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He lives in Long Beach, California.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[RedScarySpice]

He’s very funny.

[Jason]

The first Charles Harper Webb poem that I read, "The Death of Santa Claus," was surprising, humorous, and beautifully written. The same can be said for many of the poems in this collection, which includes a wide range of topics--from age to hard-boiled eggs, from waiting to Rwanda. Anyone could find a poem in this selection to devour--and then devour again. On a side note, Webb confesses in his poem "Naming Our Boy" that he's always liked the name Jason. Ha! :)

[Shannon]

Funny!

[Rauan]

if you want to know what's wrong with a lot of contemporary poetry then read this book. and then again you might like it. it's a win-win situation.