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Title: Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard by Scott Gibson ISBN: 1-891305-15-8 Publisher: Painted Leaf Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great collection
Comment: This is a great collection of poems about Matthew Shepard. One of the poems that really made me think simply has a "," (comma) on the page, many of the others pages long.
All of the poems are excellent. Great job Scott!
Rating: 4
Summary: Sensitive and want to stay that way....
Comment: Wow! Such mixed reviews on this one! It's true we cash in on the crimes that haunt us, but why look at it that way? Why not see the written word as a way to preserve that which we don't want to forget and that which we wish to use to teach others of our mistakes? MTV recently showed "Anatomy of A Hate Crime," the first movie-type documentation of this tragedy, but I didn't once think the station used it as a ploy to boost ratings. Have a heart! Who said true life is better than fiction? Yet, the tragedy of that "true life" is what has sparked the fire in so many writers throughout the past. Expression, imagination...freedom, let's not forget what we learned from this hate crime. So, I applaud the prose and am sure the poets meant it well. As for you readers who didn't get it, go take out your anger by hitting someone in the head 18 times with the handle of a gun and then let's see what you choose to write about.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Cynical Attempt to Cash In On A National Tragedy
Comment: This book is a cynical attempt by some modestly talented poets in the main - excepting people like Campo - to jump on the bandwagon of the savage murder of Matthew Shepard. One gets the sense that poor Shepard's body was barely cold before someone decided that there was a buck to be made. Hopefully, word about the poor quality of most of the poems - many of which barely referred to Shepard - has got out so people don't waste their money. I would suggest that more good could be done by writing a check to anti-violence projects than supporting the self-indulgent and cynical exploitation of a tragedy...
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Title: Losing Matt Shepard by Beth Loffreda ISBN: 0231118597 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Talking in the Dark: A Poetry Memoir by Billy Merrell ISBN: 0439490367 Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman ISBN: 0375727191 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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