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5.0 AVERAGE
5.0 AVERAGE
I LOVE this book! A.M. Juster is a well-known formalist and classicist — the opposite of Billy Collins. He has managed to produce a book of poems that are, on the one hand, satirical (I wouldn’t go so far as to say spoofs), and on the other pretty darn entertaining poems in their own right. Juster has a good ear and is able to mimic Collins to great effect. Readers familiar with Collins will appreciate these poems all the more for their subtle references to various Collins poems and use of his familiar tropes. For instance, Juster’s “Emily Dickinson’s Restraining Order” harks back to Collins’s poem, “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes,“ which is clever and light, but which some readers find distasteful. Juster’s narrators, like those of Collins, are usually focused on themselves, often wandering around the kitchen first thing in the morning or staring out a window and musing whimsically.
I’m sorry I didn’t know about this book sooner, but I spent a most enjoyable day savoring Juster’s wit.
The “About the Author” note is as good as the rest of the book.
He is deeply committed to the Supreme Court’s principles of “fair use” and the Court’s First Amendment protections for satire, and was not born in 1941. He has never served as Poet Laureate of the United States or as Poet Laureate of any other country, state or municipality, and has never served as a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York or even as one of their More Undistinguished Professors. The New York Times has never called him “the most popular poet in America” or, for that matter, paid any attention to him whatsoever.
I’m sorry I didn’t know about this book sooner, but I spent a most enjoyable day savoring Juster’s wit.
The “About the Author” note is as good as the rest of the book.
He is deeply committed to the Supreme Court’s principles of “fair use” and the Court’s First Amendment protections for satire, and was not born in 1941. He has never served as Poet Laureate of the United States or as Poet Laureate of any other country, state or municipality, and has never served as a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York or even as one of their More Undistinguished Professors. The New York Times has never called him “the most popular poet in America” or, for that matter, paid any attention to him whatsoever.