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14 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Where's the beef?,
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This review is from: The Body Electric: 25 Years of America's Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review (Hardcover)
There are a lot of poems in here but you look far and wide for something really good. I mean, sure, there are the people we already knew were good -- C.K. Williams, Eavan Boland, Frank O'Hara and et cetera et cetera -- but with a book this big you want a few surprises, you want to find some new stuff you didn't know about before. And for me, that didn't really happen. Philip Larkin's "Aubade" is maybe the best poem here -- and maybe the best poem about death ever written -- though what it's doing in a book of AMERICAN poetry I can't figure out (I guess it was just too good to exclude). They put Seamus Heaney in, too, which makes me wonder why they left out Paul Muldoon -- he's been living in New Jersey for years now, and writes poems as good as anything in here (and better than 99% of it). Go to your local bookstore and look through this monster -- maybe you'll have better luck than me, and find something thrilling -- but don't buy it.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bought this for poetry class.,
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This review is from: The Body Electric: 25 Years of America's Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review (Hardcover)
Bought this for a poetry class, if was OK. Not really my style, was more the teachers taste.
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The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry from The American Poetry Review by Stephen Berg (Paperback - Apr. 2001)
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