Ten Thousand Good Mornings [Paperback]

James Reiss (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press (January 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887483429
• ISBN-13: 978-0887483424
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,620,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars todays ideas in a timeless form, July 7, 2001

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Christopher Young (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ten Thousand Good Mornings (Paperback)

Ten Thousand Good mornings by James Reiss is a modern day classic. Reiss' is eloquent without being pretentious and by using the rules and forms of a thousand years of english he puts his own life, todays ideas and situations, into verbal symphonys even the worst of philistines would marvel at. Poetry in this new millenium takes a strong second to the larger media of television and film but, it's writing like Reiss' that shows us the power that the writen word can still have. Reiss' poems show the beauty and poinency of one mans memory, real or not, comedic or tragic, each line and each page deliver vivid pictures and deep emotion; creating images that I will never forget.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Ability to Describe Our Times, May 22, 2001

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Sara (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ten Thousand Good Mornings (Paperback)

Ten Thousand Good Mornings is a beautiful collection of poetry that resonates with the heart of our times. Every poem leans towards the next and the next, until all poems in the collection bleed into each other.

The last section of Ten Thousand Good Mornings has a heading that scrambles the words of the book title. We end Ten Thousand Good Mornings with a poem called "Prelude" ....we begin our journey at the end of the book and the last "chapter" has a title that has turned over on itself.... A rather beautiful structure! At last, the book itself--the whole book--is structured as a single great poem. I was left feeling as if I could hear the echo of my first beautiful word.

Good stuff!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Read!, October 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Ten Thousand Good Mornings (Poetry Series) (Hardcover)

James Reiss' new book is notable for its verbal energy and play of diction and sound, an exploration of ethical and personal psychological situations and universal dilemmas. His wit is a way of confronting the sadnesses of our lives and times. His poems explore the inner and outer landscapes of a contemporary, deeply feeling and thinking human being. His most remarkable quality is the development of an engaging, confiding, colloquial style that is direct, down to earth and quite convincing in his unabashed and honest explorations of his subjects. At the heart of his poems there is an emotional, emotive voice without fear of sentiment. Yet the style is most interesting: a voice supple, flexible, personal and personable. This expansive expressiveness seems the basis of his ever-more (with each book) ambitious poetic explorations of forms and content, expanding into larger and more encompassing narrative elements. James Reiss' fine sense of emotional location "places" his active lines inside his personas' and his characters' psyches--and ultimately in ours.