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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780807112991
ISBN: 0807112992
Label: Louisiana State University Press
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 64
Publication Date: 1986-04
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Studio: Louisiana State University Press

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Poetry lives!
Review: Jim Applewhite appears as a protagonist in V. S. Naipaul's Turn In The South. That's where I first encountered his poetry. I rushed to amazon.com, only to find that most of his works are out-of-print but miraculously available. Chinaberry Tree is the first collection to arrive in my hands, and it seems that I've waited a long time - years - for a lyric poet of Applewhite's skill and zest to emerge from my own generation. He's the heir to Jarrell and Roethke. He puts LANGUAGE back in poetry and poetry back in English. I won't encumber this recommendation with analysis of his themes. Read him for the pleasure of it.

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