Stephen Dunning
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Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle...: And… di Stephen Dunning
This is a book I suddenly recalled, in Dec or 2020. I must have read it read in the 1990s or so. This is where I first came across William Carlos William's "This is Just to Say," which remains a favorite work. I think this anthology is still popular with high school English teachers, but it is also the right kind of book for poetry lovers like me.
I'm loving this for our Friday poetry unit.
Thought I'd read it as a child (I think I skimmed it), read it again just now. It's okay, but not really my thing. I prefer light verse (Ogden Nash, A.A. Milne--I've read When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six numerous times, and they never lose their joy for me).
The kind of poetry featured in Reflections is the thoughtful, high-faluting kind, with much reliance on things as metaphors for other things. That said, I did remember the title (a shortened version of a title of the final poem), hazily, from childhood until now.
If you like poetry, this is probably an excellent collection. If, like me, you only like it when it's relatively silly & clever at the same time (hard to do!) this may not be for you.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).… (altro)
The kind of poetry featured in Reflections is the thoughtful, high-faluting kind, with much reliance on things as metaphors for other things. That said, I did remember the title (a shortened version of a title of the final poem), hazily, from childhood until now.
If you like poetry, this is probably an excellent collection. If, like me, you only like it when it's relatively silly & clever at the same time (hard to do!) this may not be for you.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).… (altro)
I first encountered this book only a few short years ago and immediately fell in love with it. Sometimes complexity of thought can be conveyed in very simple language. (For example, Summons by Robert Francis, page 54.) For me, the simplest things are usually the best. You might also enjoy its companion work, "Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle," one of my very favorite anthologies. What a diverse and wonderful selection of poems! (I loved The Stone by Paul Blackburn, page 24, especially.)
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