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Title: Every Room We Ever Slept in by Jason Shinder ISBN: 1878818058 Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr Pub. Date: August, 1993 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.95

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Summary: Clarity and insight into an anxious human mind...
Comment: What poets want is for the reader to see through their words the visions and emotions that compell them to write. However, at its best poetry can be a terrible mess of private metaphor and internal struggle. After all, poetry is essentially compressing a snapshot of one's mental state into a few words; and I consider that lossy compression, indeed. True artfulness is uncovered when the poet's mind state and personality can be decoded effectively by a reader through only the words available...and I feel Shinder does this better than most of the poets I've read.

I had the great luck to experience an introductory poetry class taught by Mr. Shinder, and as such got to know him fairly well. He was terribly anxious a lot of the time, as if he was sure what was happening around him wasn't quite perfect but he was going to let it happen anyway. He has a great perspective on his art, and has great friends in the world of poetry...and had the decency to drop Ginsberg's name only once every few hours (joke). But paramount to Shinder's personality was the great wisdom that eminated from him. Discussions with him were great fun because they seemed to go beyond standard discourse. Nothing was hidden, and his speech (while never curt) was always honest and directed at details intrinsic to the text.

This book captures his dialectic nature, his openness and his anxiousness in a way which is masterful and yet easy to grasp and love. My fiance, a rough and tumble geologist who cares more for microbrews than micropoets, read every line of this book and nearly cried at some of the more vulnerable parts dealing with the anxiety of uncertain love (a dominant theme). If you enjoy poetry which is well crafted, well developed and quite meaningful (as well as delightful when read aloud), you must read this book. ...the price of a meal at a good italian restaurant, but much more fulfilling.