O, Captain

by John Popielaski

Winner of The Ledge 2006 Poetry Chapbook Award

31 pages, Poetry Chapbook, Stapled

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

John Popielaski is the author of several poetry collections, including most recently That Special Something from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, as well as Attuning, a novel from Broken Tribe Press. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Canary, Cutleaf, Gramercy Review, and Public School Poetry.

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed some of the poems, but most were too "information-filled" and prosaic for me to see how they merited verse form.

Poems about history, if done well, shouldn't be more concerned about telling us what happened, when, and to whom, than they are concerned about being poems.