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Title: Summer With Monika by Roger McGough, Peter Blake ISBN: 0-14-058648-2 Publisher: Penguin Uk Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Sweet and joyous, through jealousy, conflict and resignation
Comment: A work that manages to evoke just about every known human emotion, as it traces the arc of a relationship from the early joy:

for i locked a yellowdoor
and i threw away the key
and i spent summer with monika
and monika spent summer with me
...
somedays we thought about the seaside
and built sandcastles on the blankets
and paddled in the pillows
or swam in the sink
and played with the shoals of dishes

Through conflict:

your finger
sadly
has a familiar ring
about it

Through resignation:

we nolonger stroll along the beaches of the bed
or snuggle in the longgrass of the carpets
the room nolonger a world
for makebelieving in
but a ceiling and four walls
that are for living in
--------------------------
roger mcgough
sadly
is discounted
because realpoems
can't be
funny

Rating: 4
Summary: Touching, poignant and moving poetry - cherish this book!!!
Comment: A book of love verses as they should be written - through good and bad. It is so exquisitely written that it'll give you that floating-on-clouds feeling and move you tears. An excellent read.