Reviews

The Book of Answers by Herb Kauderer

mary_soon_lee's review

4.0

Summer-reading book review #26: "The Book of Answers," by Herb Kauderer. This is a chapbook of answer poems: poems written in response to another poet's work. By turns humorous, honest, strange, these poems moved me and delighted me. They are also very quotable. For instance there are two lines from 'after "there are moments after sex"' that go "sometimes after sex I think//of vacuuming the car" (the whole poem is highly quotable). Or from "blissful ignorance" there is: "what//could be better//than to be a cow//on a sunny morning in June ... standing//with a small herd of family//knee-deep in food". And from "Jennifer's World" there's "while a child looks up//into an altitude of grown-ups."

divadiane's review

4.0

I enjoy Herb Kauderer's poetry very much. It is not hard work to read, which isn't to say the poems are simple. I'm looking forward to reading them again and reviewing the book more fully, if briefly, prior to voting on the Elgin Award for which it has been nominated.