Reviews for Ozark story-poems

The average rating for Ozark story-poems based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-21 00:00:00 Edward Kling A fine book of poetry that, to me, recalls Philip Larkin: much of the poetry is unobtrusively formal, the sensibiility is often mordant. In a way its narrative is the anti-Larkin: the speaker (taking all the poems together as a narrative) is from a family of British Jews who converted to Anglicanism, and his consciousness of being an outsider among the English, and everywhere, runs throughout. He emigrates to the United States, marries, and gradually comes to feel less exiled. He even appreciates strip malls and chain saws. (This is my construction of an overall narrative from the individual poems, which are lyrical and beautiful, full of freshness.) I read this with a group--the others didn't much like it. I think it's beautiful, complex, amusing. One poem is told from the point of view of a snake in the ceiling of a laundry room watching a woman--The Woman, Eve. A random few lines: When the drunk at the bar of the Royal Oak glared into my face, gripping his pint like a hand grenade from which he'd just taken the pin, and told me what he told me, the pang I felt was like the split that goes on riving all the way down the trunk from one sound blow to the wedge, as though it had been there forever, waiting. Hops Doggone, I wanted to keep on quoting more...to do it more justice. So, buy it and read it.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-26 00:00:00 Lyndsay Wood Careful with chainsaws... don't know if I could ever use one safely?