From Library Journal
It is disappointing that perhaps the best dramatist of American slang should offer such stilted poetic lines as these: "My friends, and I can not blame them,/ have tired of my woes./ How shall I use this solitude/ But in discovery?" Mamet's poems are intelligent, but technically awkward, rife with sentence fragments, easy rhymes, and a mannered tone that recalls T.S. Eliot: "The beneficent/ Perusal of death,/ The Untaught/ Horror of the Philistine,/ The vacant musings/ Of a vacant mind." In a few poems, the writer awakens to the challenge: "The Goshawk" is a valiant attempt at a sonnet, and "Packing," the only dramatic monolog in the book, has an intriguing voice. Of interest to Mamet fans as a gloss to his career as a playwright, but not recommended for general poetry collections.
- Ellen Kaufman, Dewey Bal lantine Law Lib., New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Ellen Kaufman, Dewey Bal lantine Law Lib., New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
A Bargain
The Blood Chit
The Brown-eyed Girl
Cafe
A Christmas Poem
Despite
A Dream
The Duck And The Goat
F.n.s.
The Fish
The Goshawk
The Hero Pony
In A Dressing Room
Janus
Jews. March 1989
The Joke Code
June
Love Song
March 1989
Melamud
Never Fail
The New House
A New Self-pity
Nothing But Good
Ode
The Office
One April 1988
Packing
A Poem
Poem
A Poem On Easter Sunday
A Prophecy
R.
Shannon Estuary. Thirty-thousand Feet
There Is Nothing Trivial About Love
Tippu Tib
Two Men
Two Minstrels
Warm And Cold
Winter
The Young Heroes
Zaa
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
The Blood Chit
The Brown-eyed Girl
Cafe
A Christmas Poem
Despite
A Dream
The Duck And The Goat
F.n.s.
The Fish
The Goshawk
The Hero Pony
In A Dressing Room
Janus
Jews. March 1989
The Joke Code
June
Love Song
March 1989
Melamud
Never Fail
The New House
A New Self-pity
Nothing But Good
Ode
The Office
One April 1988
Packing
A Poem
Poem
A Poem On Easter Sunday
A Prophecy
R.
Shannon Estuary. Thirty-thousand Feet
There Is Nothing Trivial About Love
Tippu Tib
Two Men
Two Minstrels
Warm And Cold
Winter
The Young Heroes
Zaa
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
