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Title: The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing by Richard Brautigan, Keith Abbott ISBN: 0-395-97469-0 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 23 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: well I liked the layout, and laughed out loud too
Comment: With all due respect to other reviewers' gripes about having poems start and stop willy nilly regardless of page placement, I like these that way. The layout is not a distraction; it just fits the feel of having to work marginally harder at discovering treasure, even while sifting through some kid stuff that RB himself mightn't have cared to frame. It goes along with the unpolished beauty of this book. Anyway, it's a rare poet who can make you laugh out loud.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Qualified 5
Comment: This collection of "Undiscovered Writings" is a gift given to those who love poetry and literature. The poetry in this book is delightfully quirky, surreal and sad in the way it describes both strange and common instances of fantasy and life. Brautigan has never been more consistent with his poetic message. This book is a step or two above his other poetic masterpiece "Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt."
So why "A Qualified 5"? Because the way the book is put together is disruptive to the poetry reader. With all due respect to the amount of undiscovered writing now available to the public, which I am very thankful, the cluttered way the poems are placed on the page result in disrupting the flow of reading the poems themselves. How about one poem a page? Those poems deserve to be presented in a creative space to reflect the creative place they were written in.
Rating: 3
Summary: Sometimes less really is better.
Comment: What's great about this book is that about two-thirds of the poems and short prose works are very enjoyable, or are a promise of better things to come, or provide insight into Brautigan's mind and his adolescent experiences. What's not so great is that the rest is mediocre juvenalia which Brautigan might be embarrased to see in print. The other weakness of the book is that the works are just run together on the pages, with even some of the shortest pieces overlapping from page to page. It would have been far beter to have selected more judiciously and then printed only one work per page. The irony here is that Brautigan's other books follow such a format. Brautigan and his earlier editors showed some respect for his work and his readers that the current editors do not. Richard, you deserved better.
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Title: An Unfortunate Woman : A Journey by Richard Brautigan ISBN: 0312277105 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: You Can't Catch Death : A Daughter's Memoir by Ianthe Brautigan ISBN: 0312264186 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan ISBN: 0395706742 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 21 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan ISBN: 0395500761 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan ISBN: 0671230255 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: December, 1978 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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