Reviews

Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke, David Wagoner

ohanaaa's review

dark inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

2.25

Poetry was really pretty, but the book's pacing was way too slow for my liking and a lot of it felt repetitive at times. I can understand why some people really enjoy his writing style though!

kelseyjobrien's review

5.0

My favorite poet by far. I got this book as a gift when I was 16, and used at least three of his poems as inspiration for my creative writing classes. His poems are beautiful and, though many poets write about nature, his are original, and he uses certain techniques (his use of villanelles and beats per lines especially) that make his poems all the more memorable. This book also includes pages from his notebooks, and though it's quite hard to read some of his handwriting, it's very interesting because you get to see his process of writing and how he went about it. I would definitely recommend this to poetry lovers.