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02-27-2018, 08:13 AM
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Review of new Wendy Cope book in LA Review of Books
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02-27-2018, 08:33 AM
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Wow, Mike, that's big deal. You are the King of West Coast. You should move out here.
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02-27-2018, 08:58 AM
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An excellent review, Mike. (I need to order Wendy's latest immediately!)
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02-28-2018, 11:20 AM
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Good review, which makes me want to read the book. It also gave me an idea for a poem, so thanks, Mike.
Susan
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03-01-2018, 08:36 AM
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Poetry Daily is now headlining this piece of his:
http://poems.com/
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03-08-2018, 11:12 AM
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A rave review is rarely as intriguing as this~~congratulations, Michael!
I've been reading and re-reading her first and second books recently, and the versatility is phenomenal: the work is subtle, outrageous, positive, negative, self-effacing, proud, understated, laugh-out-loud funny, and touching.
Must order the last one too!
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02-28-2018, 10:21 AM
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Mike Juster on Wendy Cope, linked from Prufrock Blog
A. M. Juster writes about the talent and depth of Britain’s most popular poet ( https://micahmattix.us9.list-manage....e= 01f1b13d41) : “Despite her obvious talent and Oxford education, Cope had to overcome many obstacles. She was a woman in a literary world dominated by males. She worked as an elementary school teacher, not as a professor or editor. She wrote primarily formal poetry at the highpoint of its disfavor within the academy. Perhaps the greatest obstacle to her literary acceptance was that her poems were humorous at a time when the establishment assumed that light verse had altogether died. Opinion leaders may have given Cope short shrift, but Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis stunned them by selling almost 200,000 copies, an extraordinary number for a British poetry book. Nonetheless, critics only rarely credited Cope for anything other than simply being funny; they passed over her range of styles and subjects, her ideas, her concision, her erudition, her unpredictability, and her mastery of form.”
--Juster on Wendy Cope's Anecdotal Evidence in the L.A. Review of Books
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03-13-2018, 09:33 PM
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Michael,
I read the review when it came out and promptly bought her selected poems. So I must call that review a success--thanks!
Cheers,
Marly
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