New Hampshire by Robert Frost
This collection won a Pulitzer Prize for Robert Frost in 1924. The most famous poem is, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.’ The title poem ‘New Hampshire’ is a longish one that Frost clearly means to anchor the collection. He includes footnotes referring to…
Spellbound by Marcel by Ruth Brandon
This isn’t a very good book. However, Ms. Brandon with her perspective and prose captures the gestalt of the age and these early 20th century Bohemians. What makes it not good is the author disinterest in what Duchamp did as an artist. At different points…
Camera Man, Buster Keaton, The Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens
Don’t buy this book if you are looking for a traditional biography with a year by year, blow by blow account of the great artist’s life and career. This book is much better than that. Ms. Stevens makes it clear that her feelings for Buster…
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
Don’t read this book if you are interested in fiction or a well-crafted novel. You will very disappointed with Ecotopia if those are your expectations. However, if you want a thorough, well-imagined example of what would happen if a portion of America adopted an anti-capitalist,…
Line Study of a Motel Clerk by Allison Pitinii Davis
This is truly a sophisticated poetry collection. Most or all of the poems can stand alone but their super power is as grouped together in this book. What Ms. Davis does with poetry is bring concision, mystery, emotional depth, complicated family life, American decline, alienation…
Carrie by Stephen King
Stephen King pushes the reader’s face into Carrie’s bloody crotched and helped this reader get why the male gender can’t handle the potency of women. There are two bloody moments in the novel and as horrific as the splash of pig’s blood is, and the…
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