Men Need Space [Paperback]

Judyth Hill (Author)

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10,000 Waves In Shoji Tub
Accidental Poetry
And You Were There Too
Being As How
Birthday Buoyant
Button, Button, Who's Got The Button?
Closed For Repairs
Code Blue
Divorce And Toasters
Excuses To Have Sex
Heart Is Where The Home Is
Illinois Central
Life Is A Series Of Events That Seem Important At The Time
Little Amanda Talks To The Moon
Marriage Is Not A Pretty Subject
Men Need Space
No Later
No More Tears For Africa
Paula's Story
A Plot Calling The Characters Back
Pretty Grimm
The Real Revolution (is Evolution)
Schopenhauer, Heidegger And A More Slender You
Seeing You At The Museum
Slipstream
Something About Duchamp, Lady Day, And Danger
Something Ashberry Taught Us All
The Sorry Of Flowers
Sweet Honey Of Refusal
There's No Way To Love Without Being Changed
These Are The Bells, The Bells
We Cannot Find What Is Not Lost
Weddings And Armed Robberies
Whaddya Think It Means?
What Marries Us
What You Already Know
Where Water Has Been Recently
Worst Sex
Your Writing's Not In Cochiti
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Sherman Asher Pub (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964419637
• ISBN-13: 978-0964419636
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,758,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Passion , Heartbreak and Sex, February 23, 2000

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This review is from: Men Need Space (Paperback)

I just love this book by regional poet Judyth Hill. She's a dynamic, fabulous performer of her own work. This review by Jessica English appeared in Weekly Alibi when the book fist came out in 1997. Men Need Space is now in its second printing. I say "get it while it's hot".

"This newest book from Judyth Hill-a Santa Fe performance poet-happens to be a collection of love poems. Nothing sappy. Hill's love poetry is hard-edged and real. She mocks marriage. She chronicles the aftermath of divorce. She writes about passion, heartbreak and sex with diverse imagery. Hill compares love to baseball; sex to paintings by Renoir; marriage to having diet Sprite and pork rinds in bed. Lengthy and straightforward titles seem to give her away before you even begin the first stanza, but Hill's poems are far more complex, often plunging into some sorrowful or bitter twist by the last stanza. And much of her poems are about poetry itself: the most passionate and torrid lover that any poet has. I ache still since finishing Men Need Space. I return to each stanza, each line that reminds me of myself. And that is the only measure I have for good poetry: the kind that invades your own heart."

Jessica English / Weekly Alibi