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Title: Selfwolf (Phoenix Poets (Paper)) by Mark Halliday ISBN: 0-226-31384-0 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Masterful, Mysterious, and Wholeheartedly Delicious
Comment: Considering that I usually consume books of poetry in one healthy sitting, the fact that I savored this book for almost two weeks stands as partial testament to its brilliance, intrigue, and genuine understanding of the human condition. Halliday writes about experiences which, while superficially banal, actually manage to penetrate both the conventional medium of poetry, and the varied audiences receiving his poems. Throughout the book he continually pokes fun at himself as a poet and the meaning of "immortality" through writing while also providing us with a tragic and beautiful collection of ideas ranging from the traditionally important (divorce, loss, heartache) to the Romantic oddities (Baudelairian passing of strangers) to the existentially bizarre (urban mediocrity, male angst, reconstruction of self). This book cannot be ignored by anyone seriously interested in gutsy, intelligent, witty, entertaining poetry. I'm still stuck with its pungent, admittedly disturbing though remarkably satisfying aftertaste!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Pleasure to Read
Comment: The best thing about Mr. Halliday's work is that you can see the personal nature of the author in the poems. I can see Mark sitting up late at night writing all of this (Loaded Inflections) and I can understand the relationships he has with his characters (Divorce Dream). Selfwolf is absolutely believable and devoid of cloying sentiment. His personality is on those pages and to read them leaves me wanting to research volumes on his thoughts. This book is a lot less like typical poetry and a lot more like the most interesting discussion you've ever had with that one person who is intriguing because he won't let you pick his brain. The one disappointment? I want to know even more.
Rating: 2
Summary: Where's He Going to Go Next?
Comment: many good poems, but there's so much irony in this book that when you get to poems like Tonette the poet sounds like a hypocrite. how'd erma bombeck get into the room? "bad people" is a weird mix of nostalgia, empathy and disapproval but ends up feeling parental (ask your mother) and hence cliche. "Other Pages" reads like a page torn from the Frank Bidart handbook "Emotional displays through Typography." and haven't i seen some of these poems before, in Tasker Street? the poet seems to have painted himself into a corner here.
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Title: What Narcissism Means to Me : Poems by Tony Hoagland ISBN: 1555973868 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Jab (Phoenix Poets) by Mark Halliday, University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226313867 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Skid (Pitt Poetry Series (Paper)) by Dean Young ISBN: 0822957809 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Best American Poetry 2003 : Series Editor David Lehman by David Lehman, Yusef Komunyakaa ISBN: 0743203887 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry by Billy Collins ISBN: 0812968875 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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