Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #505176 in Books
• Published on: 1985-03-12
• Released on: 1985-03-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 110 pages

Customer Reviews

Awful poems!
I don't mind poetry that's difficult on the surface; I don't mind having to use a dictionary to come to terms with it; and I don't mind contempory poetry written in traditional forms as long as it's well done. But the effort to read it better be worth my time.

This isn't a poetry collection. It's a field guide and botany textbook set to meter. It's ironic that this book praises nature because it angers me that trees were cut down to print it. What a shameful waste of wood pulp!

I've finished almost all poetry collections I started even when the poems were bad. It's rare for me to give up on a book and sell it to Half Price Books (which is what I did in this case). If I had done that with Allen Ginsburgs "Fall of America" collection I wouldn't have gotten to his "Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze" poem that made all the bad poems worth wading through.

But I just couldn't take Clampet's "What the Light Was Like." I gave up on it about one third of the way through. These poems are just plain ugly and a torture to read.

Stay away! You've been warned.

Amy, damn girl!
Amy , You go girl! you certainly know your stuff