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Title: Americana and Other Poems by John Updike ISBN: 0-375-41254-9 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: An exceptional collection!
Comment: John Updike is famous for his novels, of course, but I have been a fan of his poetry for 35 years, since Telephone Poles and The Carpentered Hen were issued in a single paperback volume called "Verse." While his best work was probably the adaptations of Yevtushenko that he did in Hugging the Shore, he has also had other triumphs. This book is his greatest of those. His early work was labeled as "light verse," but it was frequently much more. He wrote a great poem many years ago about a young man named Flick Webb, a high school basketball star turned gas station attendant. Flick was later to become his most famous fictional character, Rabbit Angstrom. The poem (I don't recall the title)contained such great lines as "...bright applauding tiers of Necco Wafers, Jibs, and Juju Beads." He has returned to that kind of vivid imagery in "Americana." For instance: "...brightly colored pools of candy bars; the men's room prim beside the equal-access women's; briefcases floating in a leather flock..." This volume contains A++ stuff of Philip Levine quality. Startling, remarkably perceptive and observant, beautiful but rarely obscure. You'll stop and read passages aloud dozens of times to whoomever you feel is worthy of hearing it. Highly recommended.
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Title: What Work Is: Poems by Philip Levine ISBN: 0679740589 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz ISBN: 038547721X Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 19 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Writer's FAQ's: A Pocket Handbook, Second Edition by Muriel Harris ISBN: 0131831259 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 22 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.60 |
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Title: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott ISBN: 0385480016 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Call to Write (2nd Edition) by John Trimbur ISBN: 0321084926 Publisher: Longman Publishing Group Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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