Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New

By Ed Ochester

Ed Ochester's Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New includes the entire text of Snow White Horses, Ochester's earlier selected poems, as well as selections from Land of Cockaigne and a generous sampling of new poems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932870148
• ISBN13: 9781932870145
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Autumn House Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Ochester's new selected is absolutely brilliant. If you like poetry--from Robert Frost to Charles Bukowski and anything / everything that separates those two--this is a book for you. This is the good stuff. The stuff you can't deny. It's Van Morrison on the jukebox. It's the beach, the sun, the rain, and, because it has to be, your drunk uncle. Nobody in American poetry swims as many oceans as Ochester: comic and tragic; narrative and lyrical; political and intensely personal. He's a professor who writes like a barfly, and a nature poet who vacations at Popp's Motel in Key Largo. Everything he throws at the reader-- from cheap hotels to Fred Astaire to David Lehman and Melanie Griffith to Nazis and Voltaire-- sticks. Unreconstructed pulls together the best from Ochester's four full-length books (all excellent and worth paying big bucks for on e-bay), and adds almost thirty pages of excellent new poetry. My copy came yesterday. I've read it twice. I can't recommend this book enough.