Ladders In July

by William Allegrezza

Ladders In July by William Allegrezza. BlazeVOX [books] presents innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry.

Genres: Poetry

70 pages, Paperback

Published February 2, 2007

About the author

William Allegrezza edits the press Moria Books, Moss Trill, and teaches at Indiana University Northwest. He has published many poetry books, poetry reviews, articles, translations, short stories, and poems. He founded and curated series A, a reading series in Chicago, from 2006-2010. More information about him can be found at https://www.allegrezza.info.

Reviews

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poetry isn’t the easiest writing form to understand. Some poetry is straightforward, other is wrapped up in different writing techniques. Mostly it's open to interpretation by the reader. Or so it seems to me. William’s poetry seems to be the kind that isn’t straightforward or simple to understand. It’s only 69 pages but you are not just reading the book. You are also trying to understand the meaning behind each word in the poem. Williams poem's seem to be words stung together, a lot of them the meaning escapes me. Towards the ending some of them are written in more structured sentences. One of the most “understandable” poems was the one called "tel aviv". My favorite poems have to be the last two. “a made thing” (beautiful) and "an epilogue." (clever)


-Won this book from goodreads

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this book through the First Reads contest.

I finally received my copy of Ladders in July almost 4 months after I had initially won.

First off, I love poems. Reading Ladders in July, I was mostly confused in the beginning. I reread the first 20 or so poems 3-4 times and I still had no idea what in the world was going on. But then I arrived at the poem Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv is an amazing poem. As is Terminal, Last Stage, Poets & Peace, An Ecological Note and A Made Thing. My favorite was A Made Thing and I would have bought this book just for that poem. It is definately something I will read again because now I'm determined to analyze those first poems.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have never found much intrest in poems and especially not when i have to write them. When i was reading the different poems from Ladders in July, they are nicely written but, made no sense. To other people they might have made sense to but, to me it didn't. Especially when i was reading the poems 95. I thought in the beginning it was talking about being that old but i don't think it was talking about that. Plus I'm not that good at definitions so a few of these words that were in the poems, i had no idea what it meant.

It was still nicely written!

[Vika · Rating 1 out of 5]

I got this book for free through Goodreads First Reads giveaway. I wouldn't recomend it.. It was so random, i didn't get it.