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Title: The Love Poems of James Laughlin by James Laughlin ISBN: 0-8112-1387-0 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Access and beauty
Comment: I found these poems to be beautiful. This title shouldn't be overlooked for Valentine's day or any romantic occasion...

Rating: 5
Summary: A Great American Poet
Comment: James Laughlin was no less than a great American poet. Sometimes overlooked because of those he published, (a suggestion from Ezra Pound, while he attended the Ezuversity in Italy) William Carlos Williams helped devise his own meter and voice. What we have is truly an American voice that can be compared to the great Roman poet Catullus. This collection is some of his finer poetry, and quite a pleasure to read.

Rating: 3
Summary: The Love of Words
Comment: Poor James Laughlin---one of America's most resourceful and innovative publishers never made it past lacklustre and competent as poet. Laughlin's _New Directions_ gave us Nabokov's first novel and book of critical essays, and Henry Miller's ruminations, and a wealth of writers who would have otherwise been lost.

Laughlin himself was always an aspiring writer; many of the poems in this collection prove that he wasn't too far off the mark---that is, bits and pieces of otherwise run-of-the-mill poesy have a certain wonderful spark, a gleam of genius that suggests, had his circumstances (family wealth and a sense of duty) been different, that he might have proved remarkable. But they're not. These poems have much of Laughlin's grace in them---elegant but somehow tame and somewhat bland.

When young, Laughlin visited Gertrude Stein in Paris. Stein told him that his talents lay elsewhere, that he could help out the written word better by helping other writers, which Laughlin, dutifully and gracefully, did. He never gave up on writing. I don't see why he should have---if anything, his poems might seem pale because they are surrounded in _New Directions_'s catalog by so much genius. I hope that Laughlin was pleased by the good company.