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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9780393327090 ISBN: 0393327094 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: August 08, 2005 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Editorial Review: Product Description: Poetry from the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award. From lilting lines about a love that "dizzies up the brain's back room" to haunting fragments betokening death and decline in a suffering world, Kim Addonizio articulates the ways that our connections—to the world, to self, and to others—endure and help make us whole. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Girlfriend's Guide to PoetryIt is rare to find a modern free verse poet whose work is lucid and yet does not open itself to the accusation of being "prose with linebreaks." Kim Addonizio, however, manages to produce poems which do not sacrifice any clarity and yet remain musical, moving and often surprising. Kim is a poet who somewhat refreshingly writes mostly in complete sentences, but she uses those sentences to go somewhere unusual. In a poem like "Miniatures," which is entirely in complete grammatical sentences, a train ... Read More Rating:  - another fine book!I love this book, not as much as Tell Me, which freaking ROCKED, but still...no one now writes as sassy and real as Addonizio does. eagerly waiting ANOTHER! Rating: - another winner from addonizioI very excitedly waited for Addonizio's latest collection of poetry to come out, and even though I didn't have the money, I bought it within a couple of weeks of its publication. And I read slowly so that I could savor this collection. Addonizio is a phenomenal poet--probably the best of her generation--a mix of Anne Sexton and Edna St. Vincent Millay. I will admit that this is the weakest of her collections (though it would be hard to top Tell Me and The Philosopher's Club). Even so, it is great work, ... Read More Rating: - And she rocks again.I am a devote fan of Kim Addonizio, gobbling up all of her work as fast as I can. And while I love that this collection continues her voice and her stuggle against the world, I do think that this collection is weaker than Tell Me or The Philospher's Club. This collection is divided into 5 sections corresponding to love, death, ways of the world, booze, and other. Her writing is very confessional and bluesy. She even refers to Sharon Olds, and a "form" of Billy Collins. I recommend this book to anyone ... Read More |
