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Hello Sunshine

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If I were to sit down, drink a fifth, let it sink in until my handwriting was almost completely illegible, then I would start writing things that sounded like what is found in this book.

Of course, I suppose I could avoid the alcohol altogether and, instead, cut and past lines from "The OC" and then break them up into one- or two-word lines.

I am glad there is one more poetry book in the poetry section, and I'm ecstatic if Mr. Adams' poetry turns on a few folks that had previously written off or never considered poetry. I also think it's great that a singer/songwriter cares enough about literature to write a book of poetry.

However, what bothers me is that any poet who is not already established as an actor/singer/anchorperson/political figure/Oprah guest that writes poetry like this would never get one, let alone two, books of poetry published in one year. This is not groundbreaking, this is not exploratory - this was published not because of literary merit, but star power. As a book of poetry, it is better than a high schooler could do, but at times incoherent and at other times repetitive and at other times a diary entry.

But hey, if I can buy it on Amazon for less than ten bucks (including S&H), it's worth it. You can't read the Norton Anthology every day.

I am a fan of Ryan Adams, but these two books don't compare to his music. I read Infinity Blues and Hello Sunshine from the library. Hello Sunshine is the same style as you get in Infinity Blues.People are correct in saying that these are basically journal entries. It's like listening to someone talk to themselves, it's incoherent, confusing, and only the person saying it knows what they're talking about, but the reader doesn't often get much of an idea of what its about. I found it a bit too abstract. There were a handful of poems in each book that I liked and were interesting to me, I enjoyed reading it, though not as soul stirring as his music. I'm sure fans will get more out of it, it's interesting to see another side of him through something other than his music, and I'd be willing to read another book if he wrote one.