User Profile

Some of the saddest parts of this book are the hopeful ones, the passages that say, “It’s not all bad news, we’re making progress, look what we did here!” and it’s something that’s been undone by T***p and his toadies.

The book was published in 2024. How quickly things change.

I’ve been reading and writing poetry for about half a century. Even though this book is written for newcomers to poetry, I found value in it, especially in the analyses of specific poems. There’s plenty about social issues, but not in a polemical way. It’s not a “poetry for the revolution” book.

@mouse@bookwyrm.social I first met my wife at a party she was throwing. Like many of the party guests, I had quite a few drinks and crashed at her place. (We were all young.) In the morning, she got up to find me reading her copy of this book. It’s one of the things that made her think I might be worth knowing better. In a way, the book helped bring us together.

I’ll be coming back to this book, probably more than once. CAConrad gives us the rituals/exercises that lead to the poems, as well as the poems themselves. The poems I write will not be the same after reading Ecodeviance.