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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the funniest poet in america,
By Private Citizen "PC" (Oxford MS) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Keep This Forever (Perfect Paperback)
Mark Halliday is one of the funniest poets in American poetry; edgier and nervier than Billy Collins, more grounded than James Tate- but comparisons are odious. Keep this forever has lots of wit and lots of heart, and lots of perceptive investigations-- that's what his poems are--of what it feels like to be an American in our time, in our landscapes of consumerism and complicity, and isolation and relationship. Halliday can play postmodern word games when he wants to, but his poems satirize such word games; his poems don't provide solutions, except the solution of honesty, and honoring your own confused experience of humanity. He's not sentimental like too many sincerists, but he's not cynical either. And he's always clear as aquavit; but more flavorful, more insightful. I laugh out loud all the time at his poems.
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Keep This Forever by Mark Halliday (Perfect Paperback - September 1, 2008)
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