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by: Ben Doyle
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN: 9780807126790
ISBN: 0807126799
Label: Louisiana State University Press
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 71
Publication Date: 2001-04
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Sales Rank: 934369
Studio: Louisiana State University Press
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Diamond in the Rough
In the steaming pile that is postwar American poetry, this is a true diamond in the rough. Radio, Radio is one of the most original works in decades. With this stunning debut, Ben Doyle smashes poetic convention just as he smashed fashion convention with the Male Tube Top.
Rating:  - Finally....
a book I can go to like I used to go to Championship Vinyl when I was a wee teen. By which I mean it's nice to find a book that's lively, full of life (rangingly intellectual without the defensive hang-ups of the didactically theoretical, not afraid of the body, not afraid, thankfully, of sentiment), that seems to enjoy language for its very balance between precision and imprecision, between the vertical depth of its etymology and its narcotic pharmacology. The book runs through the self-assured ... Read More
Rating:  - Uneventful, Unimaginative, Flat
The book was recommended to me and I'm sorry but I can't return the favor. It's a horrible mix of self-serving intellectual (but not very interestingly intellectual) word play and weak sentimetal gestures toward emotional expressiveness.
Rating: - Brilliant Poet and Inventor
Ben Doyle is a poet of uncommon talent. His poems move me in a way few others have. Not since reading the works of Tim Liu have I had such a wonderous experience. On a side note, not only is Mr. Doyle a gifted poet, he is also a fashion visionary having designed both the Male Tube Top and the Thigh Sweat Band.
Rating: - More than "Creative Writing"
Whenever I hear someone gripe about creative writing programs dire influence over American Poetry, it is usually clear that "someone" was unable to secure a spot at a creative writing program of choice. Jealousy aside, why not attempt to actually say something substanitive about why a group of poems does not fufill you as a reader.
Who knows how a first book of poems will hold up over time, but it is clear that the formal, irreverent, intelligent and purely mad wit at work ... Read More
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