Ben E P rated Dien Cai Dau: 4 stars
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Ben E P reviewed The complete poems by Anne Sexton
Review of 'The Complete Poems' on 'GoodReads'
4 stars
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many …
Review of 'You get so alone at times that it just makes sense' on 'GoodReads'
2 stars
I find Chuck to be pretty cheap sometimes, but he has his moments.
Ben E P rated Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies: 3 stars
Ben E P reviewed Our Word Is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Marcos
Review of 'Our Word Is Our Weapon' on 'GoodReads'
3 stars
I was just reminded, by looking up further reading on the EZLN, that I dragged this 500+ page tome around Boston and Cambridge during my freshman year of college. I am someone who tends to lose focus when reading deep texts (referring here both to dense theoretical discussion and personal writings that delve into the abstract), and I read about half of this before skimming portions of the remainder. It may be time to get another copy and see if I can approach the collection differently 17 years later. The Subcomandante (now Subcomandante Galeano) has been an inspiration of mine since I was a young radical.
Ben E P rated On the road: 2 stars
On the road by Jack Kerouac
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness …
Ben E P rated Nickel and Dimed: 4 stars
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara Ehrenreich
The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late 1990s.
Ben E P reviewed Howl: and other poems by Allen Ginsberg (The Pocket poets series -- no. 4)
This annotated version of Ginsberg's classic is the poet's own re-creation of the revolutionary work's …
Review of 'Howl' on 'GoodReads'
5 stars
I can't help but love this book, despite all the terrible college poetry it inspired (some of mine included).
Ben E P rated Punk Rock: So What?: 2 stars
Punk Rock: So What? by Roger Sabin
It's now over twenty years since punk pogo-ed its way into our consciousness. Punk Rock So What?brings together a new …
Ben E P rated The Philosophy of Punk: 3 stars
Ben E P rated The town & the city.: 3 stars
The town & the city. by Jack Kerouac
The Town and the City is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Harcourt Brace in 1950. This was the …
Ben E P rated On Writing: 4 stars
On Writing by Stephen King
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class …
Ben E P rated American Childhood: 3 stars
American Childhood by Annie Dillard
A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie …
95 poems. by E. E. Cummings
One of the best small collections from a poet extraordinaire. I carried this slim volume on many trips over the …