In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007
by:
X.J. Kennedy (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780801886539 (0801886538)
Publish date: September 1st 2007
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages no: 205
Edition language: English
This book changed my mind about X.J. Kennedy. The poems of his which I had previously read, mostly for school, all dated to the 1950s and 60s. I still didn't like those ones. Not only were they often dated, but largely immature and self-indulgent. Reading them was like being stuck next to a stranger...