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Title: Lusions (Grove Press Poetry Series) by James Ragan ISBN: 0-8021-1603-5 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: It's all in the eye of the beholder!
Comment: Reading James Ragan is no easy thing but as a master of languages he challenges you to do that. The imagery is intense and takes so many twists and turns one is constantly reframing the mind to keep up...to follow the tale. The secret is to read the title, take a moment to reflect and go from there. It was in that fashion that "Delivering Newspapers Past the Cemetery Dead" came alive to this old paper boy.

Ragan does what I wish more poets would do: size up the world and significant matters about it from his perspective [the only one any of us has a complete grasp of] instead of attempting to dazzle us - as many do - with how he experiences himself and his own turmoil. He does not write about bunions on his bum or bruises on his abused ego.

I am afraid that I can only regard someone who thinks this gifted man [or his poetry] arrogant as someone with an ax to grind. I have had the privilege of meeting and interviewing him. He is down to earth, accommodating, pleasant and as delightful to talk with as he is to read.

My only regret about Lusions is that most everyday readers who would undoubtedly find his topics engrossing will not find reading him an easy thing to do.

Rating: 2
Summary: arrogance exemplefied
Comment: This book typifies this author's arrogance. It seems to me that he is so self-centered that he can not write about things in a the broad context of life, without including his own narrow perspective. A glorified autobiography!