Deja Vu Diner [Paperback]

Leonard Gontarek (Author)

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Suffused with an austere blue light, the poems of Leonard Gontarek's Déjà Vu Diner are both musical and precise. --Susan Stewart

Gontarek's lyricism -- his aphoristic reticence -- is unique in its precision, its refusal to use emotion carelessly, its eerie fragmentation. --Stephen Berg

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Autumn House Press; First edition. edition (January 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932870075
• ISBN-13: 978-1932870077
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,193,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Extraordinary Diner, July 17, 2006

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Beth Ann Siro (Pennsylvania, United States of America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deja Vu Diner (Paperback)

I do love diners. You know how those special ones have an incredibly unique character that makes them gems--or some special dish that's uniquely theirs--and, also, I think of all the profound experiences I have had in diners: conversations with some extraordinary person I never expected to meet, overhearing extraordinary conversations.... "Deja Vu Diner" is like this. The poems explore the whole gamut of human experience: how the extraordinary is discovered by doing the ordinary everyday. "Deja Vu Diner" takes the ordinary, explores it, we--the readers--explore it, and see it in an extraordinary new way...

I left two copies of this book at the local cafe; one is now gone and the other is dog-eared.