Theodore Roethke
Birth date: May 25, 1908
Died: August 01, 1963
Theodore Roethke's Books
Poet Theodore Roethke's prose is engaging, humorous, self-deprecating, and no-bullshit. I love the bits from his notebooks in particular: he's supremely quotable. His insights on poetry are useful for a poet at any stage of his/her development, and for teachers and lovers of poetry in general. A few...
There a several poems by Roethke that I quite like. Once in a while I think he is brilliant. But I've decided I can't read collections of his work. There is too much I don't care for, and too much repetition -- primarily repetition of a mood of self-absorption that gets old fast. Lust, guilt, poor y...
Don't get this from the library. It is fun to dip into. There are some wonderful lines. But trying to read straight through a massive collection of fragments that another (*cough*lesstalented*cough*) poet has arranged to sort of form poems is a tad wearisome. My mind kept trying to form connections ...
ooey gooey rich and chewy inside.golden cakey tender flaky outside.wrap the inside in the outside -is it good? darn-tootin!
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