Lovesick

by Howard Good

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks, including Police and Questions (2008) from Right Hand Pointing, Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks, The Torturer's Horse (2009) from Recycled Karma Press, and Love Is a UFO (2009) from Pudding House. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. Lovesick is his first full-length book of poetry.

Genres: Poetry

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Howard “Howie” Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks: Death of the Frog Prince (2004), Heartland (2007), and Apocalypse Mambo (forthcoming) from FootHills Publishing; Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications; the e-book, Police and Questions (2008), from Right Hand Pointing; and the e-book, Last Words (2008), from Gold Wake Press. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Web anthology.

Reviews

[Dave Bonta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-reading these poems now for the third time. They're as good as I remember them. Many more "wow" moments for me than I find in the average Charles Simic collection since the 1970s. Good is one of our best contemporary minimalist surrealists. Here's a quote (from "Recessionary Times"):

notwithstanding the tall buildings,
it's spring by the calendar

and lewd as the hot, blue tongue
of an acetylene torch.

I blogged a response to my first reading back on April 9, 2010, when I used it as a text for bibliomancy.

[Cynthia Reeser]

Review here: http://www.prickofthespindle.com/revi...

[Carah Naseem · Rating 2 out of 5]

I couldnt even finish it. Some of the language and images were nice, but it was all so laden with cliches that I couldnt make it through the whole thing.