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March 27, 2017
No labeled sections and only an author index... frustrating. Ok, I can see that maybe Janeczko wants readers to find their own themes & motifs & subjects... but no title/ first line?
And definitely YA or adult, though my library shelved it as Juvenile. However, no real worries that kids will get to the heavy poems because the cover is so dreary* and the book so fat.
But don't get me wrong. For the right audience, it's perfect. As a 17 yo girl I would have loved it. The poems are both accessible and rich, just meaty enough to satisfy but not intimidating. Would make a great collection for a young person, or a classroom, to own, to dip into intermittently, to reread often.... And I will continue to look for more written and/or edited by Janeczko.
Btw, it's not love poems. I'm not sure I understand the title, but it could be interpreted as 'poems one person will like so much s/he'll want to share with another person' I suppose. And I do have a few bits to share with you:
From Richard Shelton's "My Love:"
...and I think of those
who walk the streets all night
frantic with desire and bruised
by the terrible small lips of rain...
From Fred Chappell's "The Lost Carnival:"
Where has the little carnival gone?
She imagines a rocky mountain pass, the
elephants trumpeting in the blizzard, the acrobats
shouldering the mired wagons. Tigers
pad soft and restless through the falling flakes.
From Paul Zimmer's "Rollo's Miracle:"
... lightning cracks its knuckles,
Thunder pulls the plug out.
Fish could swim in what comes down.
I liked Christine E. Hemp's "To Build a Poem" which compares the construction of a poem to the building of a house, "pointed word and nail" etc. But my 20 yo son pondered that, and convinced me that a more apt metaphor would be to compare a poem to a Rube Goldberg machine. I asked him to please create a poem or essay explaining that to all; I'll copy it here in the comment section if any of you remind me to.
*I did show the cover to my family members and, while they see my point, and don't think they'd necessarily pick up the book, they don't find it as dreary as I do.
And definitely YA or adult, though my library shelved it as Juvenile. However, no real worries that kids will get to the heavy poems because the cover is so dreary* and the book so fat.
But don't get me wrong. For the right audience, it's perfect. As a 17 yo girl I would have loved it. The poems are both accessible and rich, just meaty enough to satisfy but not intimidating. Would make a great collection for a young person, or a classroom, to own, to dip into intermittently, to reread often.... And I will continue to look for more written and/or edited by Janeczko.
Btw, it's not love poems. I'm not sure I understand the title, but it could be interpreted as 'poems one person will like so much s/he'll want to share with another person' I suppose. And I do have a few bits to share with you:
From Richard Shelton's "My Love:"
...and I think of those
who walk the streets all night
frantic with desire and bruised
by the terrible small lips of rain...
From Fred Chappell's "The Lost Carnival:"
Where has the little carnival gone?
She imagines a rocky mountain pass, the
elephants trumpeting in the blizzard, the acrobats
shouldering the mired wagons. Tigers
pad soft and restless through the falling flakes.
From Paul Zimmer's "Rollo's Miracle:"
... lightning cracks its knuckles,
Thunder pulls the plug out.
Fish could swim in what comes down.
I liked Christine E. Hemp's "To Build a Poem" which compares the construction of a poem to the building of a house, "pointed word and nail" etc. But my 20 yo son pondered that, and convinced me that a more apt metaphor would be to compare a poem to a Rube Goldberg machine. I asked him to please create a poem or essay explaining that to all; I'll copy it here in the comment section if any of you remind me to.
*I did show the cover to my family members and, while they see my point, and don't think they'd necessarily pick up the book, they don't find it as dreary as I do.
October 25, 2024
I really liked some of the poems, others not so much. It’s possible that’s just because the styles vary so much so it’s difficult to switch gears between.
I do feel there was a type of organization in the sections but a very loose organization. It somewhat killed the flow at times jumping on topics as it did.
I do feel there was a type of organization in the sections but a very loose organization. It somewhat killed the flow at times jumping on topics as it did.
October 17, 2014
Going Over to Your Place selected by Paul B. Janeczko has a wide variety of poems. With over 100+ poems to choose from, this book will take you forever to finish. One of my favorites was The Man Who Owned Cars, it was about a man who LOVEd his cars so he bought more and more telling his wife that he would fix them all up and sell them, but, his LOVE for his cars was so strong that he couldn’t just let go of his precious cars just yet.
May 30, 2008
This was the first poetry anthology I read. I found it in my junior-high school library, and it introduced me to the poems of Larry Levis, Alden Nowlan, and Richard Shelton (I had to sit down on the floor after reading "my love" the first time)--I am still unnaturally fond of it.
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