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sylda's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
henrysmalbs113's review
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
natalielorelei's review against another edition
5.0
Beautiful. So absolutely, utterly beautiful. The last scene made me tear up, and like Elizabeth Bishop, I only cry "over something at the other extreme, very rarely."
nharkins's review against another edition
3.0
SO glad the era of the Megapoet is done.
“With each candidate, you’ll go on a moonlit paddle. We’ll see which one you would least know was in the house before five, and is most entertaining after five.”
“We both enjoy reading aloud to each other and detest listening.”
“I assumed it would be just a matter of time before I proposed and I half-believed that you would accept. Yet I wanted it to have the right build-up. Well, I didn’t say anything then. And of course it wasn’t the right stage-setting; and then there was that poetry conference at Bard and I remember one evening presided over by Mary McCarthy and my Elizabeth was there, and going home to the Bard poets’ dormitory, I was so drunk that my hands turned cold and I felt half-dying and held your hand.
And nothing was said; and like a loon that needs sixty feet, I believe, to take off from the water, I wanted time and space and went on assuming, and when I was to have joined you at Key West I was determined to ask you. Really for so callous (I fear) a man, I was fearfully shy and scared of spoiling things and distrustful of being steady enough to be the least good.”
“Your chances were killed by Phillis McGinley who thought you were serious or a woman or something.”
“With each candidate, you’ll go on a moonlit paddle. We’ll see which one you would least know was in the house before five, and is most entertaining after five.”
“We both enjoy reading aloud to each other and detest listening.”
“I assumed it would be just a matter of time before I proposed and I half-believed that you would accept. Yet I wanted it to have the right build-up. Well, I didn’t say anything then. And of course it wasn’t the right stage-setting; and then there was that poetry conference at Bard and I remember one evening presided over by Mary McCarthy and my Elizabeth was there, and going home to the Bard poets’ dormitory, I was so drunk that my hands turned cold and I felt half-dying and held your hand.
And nothing was said; and like a loon that needs sixty feet, I believe, to take off from the water, I wanted time and space and went on assuming, and when I was to have joined you at Key West I was determined to ask you. Really for so callous (I fear) a man, I was fearfully shy and scared of spoiling things and distrustful of being steady enough to be the least good.”
“Your chances were killed by Phillis McGinley who thought you were serious or a woman or something.”
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