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5.0 out of 5 stars
What poetry can be,
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This review is from: Destructive Element: New & Selected Poems (Paperback)
When so much poetry is sloppy and meandering, meant more for the poet's analyst than for an intelligent reader, Cassity's work is sharp and focussed. It's also tightly compressed, so that reading even a short poem is a deeply engaging intellectual activity. This work demands the reader's concentration, but it is not work to read it. The poems are not deliberately difficult, obscure, or capriciously playful--they are simply good. If you're looking for something to read that will get your synapses firing, and will reward you in the end, give Cassity a try.
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Cassity is a poet of inexhaustible wit and intelligence.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Destructive Element: New & Selected Poems (Paperback)
Turner Cassity has taken on a startling range of subjects in his highly-crafted poetry. A few of his titles, advertising poems, serve well to advertise this collection: "Knowledge Is Power, But Only If You Misuse It," "Meaner than a Junkyard Dog, or, Turner's Evil Twin," "Do Not Judge By Appearances. Or Do.", "Some People Have No Small Talk," and "Vegetarian Mary and the Venus Flytrap." Admirers of Richard Wilbur and Howard Nemerov will enjoy Cassity's work as well.
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Destructive Element: New & Selected Poems by Turner Cassity (Hardcover - March 31, 1998)
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