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Frohes Wandern

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you'll love this guy. A book of poems well worth (...). Hawley has a very witty style, remarkable for its naked truth about fears, fantasies and the meanderings of a wonderfully wacky mind. The reader is taken on a journey through laughter, embarassment, tears and ultimatley a sense of common humanity. This one will stay on my shelf.

...a very entertaining, genuine and refreshing read. Most of us have a little voice in our head which tells us not to talk or act when we think of something very funny or outrageous yet completely inappropriate to vocalize or act upon. Well it appears that the voice in Mr. Hawley's head is silent. We can all relate to his poetic tales and images, particularly if one was ever an 8 or 15 year old boy. If Frohes Wandern is truly autobiographical I feel sorry for his parents.

I have to agree with the previous reviewers: this book of poems is great stuff. I am not one to normally like poetry, but I took a flier on this one just because of the great reviews. And they were dead on.

But I do have to say this: if this book is even half autobiographical, I feel terribly sorry for Mr. Hawyley's family, and his in-laws (assuming he has any).

All in all, a great read. I was literally laughing outloud at some of the poems. A definite book for a public-reading forum.