Reviews for Collected poems

The average rating for Collected poems based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-09-14 00:00:00 Norverta K. Scott I do not care for poetry at the best of times. In poetry's quest to condense deep, complex ideas into short, compound spaces, poets are often TOO economical with their words, lines of words that when isolated I understand, but together in a verse? Who the fuck knows. Too few words are too loaded with meaning and into too tight a space, and often (to me, an unintellectual) make no sense as a result. Anyway, I digress. I don't know what I think of Judith Wright, but I know that I don't really scare for her. She certainly suffers from the syndrome I described above at times, and what I find most frustrating with Wright is her habit of dedicating an entire poem to an issue she is dissatisfied with, so complained for several verses then at the end goes "but its alright". This philosophy of complaint but acceptance irks me too much for me to be fond of her. I don't feel she is a strong enough poet, more a confused woman who can't make up her mind.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-02-15 00:00:00 Christopher Naegele I love the language and the rhythm of this book line by line, or stanza by stanza, but at the poem level I have to work too hard, there's too much inaccessibility. To me. Nevertheless, the beauty of the lines are magnificent and will keep me coming back.