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by: Joe Wenderoth
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780819563903
ISBN: 0819563900
Label: Wesleyan
Manufacturer: Wesleyan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 83
Publication Date: February 01, 2000
Publisher: Wesleyan
Sales Rank: 1567209
Studio: Wesleyan
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In the epigraph to Joe Wenderoth's new volume of poetry, a herdsman, exhorted by Oedipus to speak the truth, replies 'It is if I speak that I will be destroyed.'
Wenderoth's poetry is sparse, nihilistic -- and sometimes witty. Publishers Weekly wrote that, 'Like Stevens, Wenderoth has a passion for philosophical ideas; at the same time he follows Williams' dictum: no ideas but in things. The result is poetry that is intellectually charged but whose final fidelity is to the senses.' His new book has the dignity of a sincere and ferocious despair. In the narratives of these poems, 'owing is all that really happens,' and lives are shaped by the refusal to 'sink dumbly into tolerance of a spectacle.'
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Rating: - Even good for the simple person
I may be biased about his work, but Joe is accesible even to the lay person. It certainly is worth the effort to hear him speak in person, and I suggest anyone who is anywhere near Baltimore, MD or Marshall, MN make the attempt. If you find this work still to be too arcane a read, check out his Letters to Wendy's.
Rating: - Beautiful/Casual/Violent
This book is one of the few books of poetry I've seen-- in the last few decades-- that did not make me dislike the author for writing it. I suggest anyone who likes serious writing look into this-- it is not overly academic, and not sentimental. I will have to look into his other book.
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