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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't listen to that person
Everything the person above said is just plain WRONG about Ed Ochester's poetry. Ochester represents a healthy and thriving segment of the poetry world, where diversity is a necessity, and his poems are full of the kind of wisdom, humor, intelligence, outrage, and humility that is needed in any art form. The book's title poem is a tribute to family and history, and...
Published on June 3, 2004
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't read while operating heavy machinery
If poetry is about language, insight, imagination or ability to transcend, (and it is) than Ochester's book is anything but poetry. Boring, rhythm dead and tedious, I couldn't imagine how it got published until I learned he used to be the editor of this series. This is the kind of flat, numb, bland efluvia that gives contemporary poetry a bad name. (no pun intended)
Published on May 10, 2004
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't listen to that person,
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This review is from: Changing the Name to Ochester (Paperback)
Everything the person above said is just plain WRONG about Ed Ochester's poetry. Ochester represents a healthy and thriving segment of the poetry world, where diversity is a necessity, and his poems are full of the kind of wisdom, humor, intelligence, outrage, and humility that is needed in any art form. The book's title poem is a tribute to family and history, and Ochester's model is one of conversation, of the mind presenting a portrait of itself as it "thinks" its way through a series of rants or themes relating to the poem's major theme or topic. Ochester is one of the most readable of poets today. I can think of no greater virtue or aspiration for any poet writing in any time.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't read while operating heavy machinery,
By A Customer
This review is from: Changing the Name to Ochester (Paperback)
If poetry is about language, insight, imagination or ability to transcend, (and it is) than Ochester's book is anything but poetry. Boring, rhythm dead and tedious, I couldn't imagine how it got published until I learned he used to be the editor of this series. This is the kind of flat, numb, bland efluvia that gives contemporary poetry a bad name. (no pun intended)
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Changing the Name to Ochester by Ed Ochester (Paperback - 1988)
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