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Poetry With a Sense of Humor, October 28, 2009
This review is from: A Boilermaker for the Lady (Paperback)
Truly an extraordinary book that I recommend to every lover of poetry with a sense of humor. Yannantuono is a remarkable talent - a supurb wordsmith with a furtile imagination and a unique way of looking at life, who doesn't take himself too seriouly. In fact, judging from the picture on the rear cover, (the half naked author is about to feed a dog a martini while both wear cone dog collars), he doesn't take himself seriously at all. While I thoroughly enjoyed the entire book,(including the serious poems), I most enjoyed the author's limericks, palindromes, and poems on unusual subjects, which reminded me strongly of Ogden Nash. You don't see poems with titles like, "Lines Written While Adding Three Inches to My Penis" or "And Our Brains Have Sailed Away", every day. I look forward to the author's next book.
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A Boilermaker for Me Too, July 19, 2011
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A Boilermaker for the Lady is one of the best American books of poety to come out in years, if not decades. Those of us who are sick of academic hack poetry, and the incestuous idiocy of what passes for poetry in the pages of the increasingly insipid New Yorker, can take heart. Fred Yannantuono has given us reason to hope. Maybe all is not lost. Maybe there is room left on the Ark.
The poems here are at turns funny, clever, moving, adroit. They are always deceptively sophisticated. The tones are varied; there are times you think maybe more than one poet is at work. Yannantuono is nothing if not versatile. There are palindromes and limericks, since the author is most fond of humor. Myself, I prefer the more serious poems, like White Christmas and The Return of Madame La Hoya. No matter what your particular preference might be, I recommend this little volume to the stars.
Imagine. A poet who can make you laugh, like James Merrill. The photo on the back is all by itself worth the price of admission. A poet's sensibilities caught in a glance. Buy this book!
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A WORDMEISTER FOR THE AGES, May 13, 2010
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The way this writer doth think
makes me glad that I am not his shrink,
for within the first hour
'neath my couch I would cower,
and later be driven to drink!
All seriousness aside, this slim volume is a delight for all those with a well developed sense of humor and a deep vocabulary. Better have a dictionary handy, tho, for this book is sprinkled with terms like "orrery", "philoprogenitive" and "cathexis".
Excuse me well I go and buy a bigger dictionary.
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