Ron Slate
Autore di The Incentive of the Maggot
Sull'Autore
Ron Slate is the winner of the 2004 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for Poetry, selected by the former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Slate is a graduate of the Stanford University writing program and was the editor of the mostra altro Chowder Review from 1973 to 1988 mostra meno
Opere di Ron Slate
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Antaeus No. 34, Summer 1979 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Relazioni
- Slate, Jenny (daughter)
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- Opere
- 4
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 61
- Popolarità
- #274,234
- Voto
- 2.9
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 5
After finishing IOU, I felt ready to put off reading for the foreseeable future. It's not that it was bad, it just draaaaaaagged. A few of the stories within were even quite engaging, but overall, it was difficult to keep going. But keep going I did, and here are my thoughts.
The book is comprised of short stories (some in the form of "advice"), poems, and two interviews. All of the pieces deal with money in some form. If you like poetry or spoken word, you may actually enjoy a good portion of the book. If I am going to read poetry, however, it should be moving, engaging, not just a series of short phrases, truncated for appearance-sake, about something not-that-surprising or unique. But, like I said, if you enjoy reading poetry, you will probably enjoy at least half of this book.
The two interviews are interesting. One is with a woman who was involved in a bank robbery in 1970 (Katherine Ann Power) and the other is with a woman who pled guilty to embezzling a couple hundred thousand dollars from her bank-employee (Donna Lee Munson). If not insightful (though the second certainly was), the interviews were entertaining.
And then the stories. These really varied, story-to-story. For a list of the stories and a 1-2 sentence reaction, see my blog ( All Book Reviewer). Overall, the book was disappointing because my feelings were often summed up with: "so, what's your point." Overall, 2 of 5 stars. Because occasionally, a story within was really good.… (altro)