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Whole Wide World An Anthology of Poems 2K B.C. - 2K A.D. |
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New & Selected Poems "An original voice." --W.S. Merwin "Ronnow puts some meaning back into the term 'experimental'. . .a poet who is both idiosyncratic and based in the best elements of a literary tradition." --Lewis Turco "Often experimental, political, sexual, emotional, but most of all surprising . . . a man and poet whose personal convictions and writing passion are not mutually exclusive." --Alice Osborn in Pedestal Magazine "Ronnow’s work finds 'salvation in the details'. . . New & Selected Poems deepens and grows more interestingly rich as it progresses, and one is left with the feeling that Ronnow’s development as both a poet and a man is ongoing. May this be said of all of us." Christy Corp-Minamiji for Blogcritics "Very rich reading." --Naomi Shihab Nye "Wild and restless." --Sandra Alcosser "Alive and moving." --Lanie Shanzyra Rebancos "I have read its pages taking pleasure in their breadth of knowledge and their singing both." --Jane Hirshfield "Has what Frank O'Hara called 'a dry eye' with all its attendant wit, speed and brain drive." --Roger Mitchell "It sits at my place at table and I dip into it regularly." --Tom Disch "I admire this book very much." --David Ray "An impressive book . . . especially the long final section, which opens up in a lot of interesting ways." --Charles North "There are so many poems here I 'recognize' and value for one virtue or another: honesty, simplicity of statement that coexists with complexity of intent, and a clear commitment to speak to the reader." --Rhina P. Espaillat "I've been enjoying the insights, the lyricism, the wry humor. My kind of book." --Seido Ray Ronci "I have read through the volume with enjoyment, admiration, and occasional bouts of envy." --Fred Chappell "What an accomplishment. It's a life in poetry. How do people process their lives without art?" --Molly Peacock "Refreshingly candid and readable. Amen." --Bruce Hunter |
Communicating the Bird "The Burning of the Jews is powerful. It stings, amuses, threatens to irritate, and finally hurts and persuades: nobody can accuse [Ronnow] of being afraid to take risks!" --Rhina P. Espaillat "[Ronnow] speaks my mind on a number of issues as well as writing with distinctive style and structure. Not many poets these days will even tackle the big issues. [He] mixes delight and grief beautifully, as in The Writer Working Hard." --David Ray "The best lesson I've had in quite a while on how to maintain the joy in the face of and while recording the details of . . .our times." --Roger Mitchell "The poems have lots of surprises, and they are graceful, punchy in places, loving." --Ronald Heifetz "An artist of great maturity in craft as well as in life, ranging from personal to cosmic to political to natural to the ornery, all while maintaining a tough backbone of nonconformist integrity, lucidity and acceptance of the endlessly insoluble paradoxes of our lives." --LP Navon |
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The Good Life
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