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A Defense of Poetry [Anglais] [Broché]

Gabriel Gudding

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5.0 étoiles sur 5 Gudding will not tire, will not falter, and will not fail 26 janvier 2003
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Perhaps the only more powerful person than Gabe Gudding in the international banking communities of Wall St., London, and Zurich is Greenspan. When Gabe Gudding decides to make a deal, the Fortune 500 feels the impact as if an earthquake hit. Politicians know not the mess with Gabe because he can break any one of them. However, Gabe's world changes when Robert Lowell enters his life.

Though seven decades younger than him, Gabe covets Robert like he has not desired any person or thing in years. Gabe treats his approach to Robert the way he handled a business deal using any means, including immoral to obtain his wants. He gains his inner secrets that he provides to a poetics professor he arranged for him to see. However, as he obsesses over him, Gabe's world begins to crash around him, leaving him with few options.

Defense of Poetry is an entertaining tale centering on the potential destructiveness of obsession. The story line is more of a character study than a thriller as Humpty Dumpy provides a deep look into Gabe and Robert's thought processes and inner gut emotions. Graphic sex scenes may turn off some readers, but add to the overall feel of the reader being an observer. Though the subplot involving the law and killers subtract from the tale by trying to twist it into a thriller, the obsession which is the main story line brilliantly works leading to a fabulous absorbing look at extreme behavior.

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1.0 étoiles sur 5 A Defense of What? 10 octobre 2003
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Criticize these poems at all and you risk playing the straight man to a comedian who has already personally queued the laugh-track--this book's neat little trap. Despite the painful self- awareness, the calculated little jokes, the predictability--after about page 5--of a kind of mechanical and heavy-handed irreverence (Michael Moore, is that you?), many of these poems actually are sort of funny. I laughed (twice, I think) as I read this. As terrible and pointless as I think this book is, I don't really blame Gudding--who is a good writer, in a way--and whose problem is really that he has the skills, the education and the desire to write but nothing to write about and no ability or vision which would allow him to transcend the limitations of the imprint of his times. He's got all the correct attitudes--a hip irreverence, a leftist and reflexive agnosticism about any and all topics. He's basically the a victim of the ennui that afflicts almost all of his generation (with the exception of a few like Nick Flynn who actually subject themselves to the process of becoming poets--a discipline that somebody like Gudding would only find embarrassing, and also too much work). Lurking in Gudding's jokes are a bunch of boring academic lessons about what poetry is supposedly "for" now that it's not "for" what it used to be "for"---an obsession these days of a great many mediocre young poets who've spent their whole lives attending or teaching school. At least Gudding, unlike many of his contemporaries, can occasionally be funny. It's too bad, though, that this is how little we ask of our poets now that they ask so little of themselves.
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1.0 étoiles sur 5 This book is A bomb 6 novembre 2003
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When I buy a joke book, I want the jokes to be funny and these ones are. So this is a good joke book. But there's a point in a joke sometimes (and if you've ever seen a Jim Carrey movie, you'll know what I'm talking about) when you realize that the clown suddenly wants to be taken seriously, that he has a "serious message" and a heart dripping treacle. I find this disgusting. Very displeasing to both the eyes and the nose. It makes me want to take a shower. If Gudding wants to make jokes--fine, he's good at it. His poems are wonderfully naughty bathroom-stall graffiti. When he (or worse, readers) start to make claims for their importance as either thinking or art, then the joke's on them but nobody's laughing anymore. At this point I am tremendously bored by both these poems and their dorky Star-Trek grad school apologists. The indignant comparisons of academic credentials by previous posters--now that's funny.
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