Happiness: A Novel in Verse
This novel in verse, like Frederick Turner's The New World and Harry Martinson's Nobel Prize-winning Aniara, introduces science fiction to narrative poetry. On X-day the universe turns inside-out,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1885266588
ISBN13:9781885266583
Release Date:April 1998
Publisher:Story Line Press
Length:156 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Frederick Pollack's Beat Classicism - in a few words...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Maybe we just live in clunky times...and poetry embodying ideas as Happiness does just isn't every phillistine's cup of tea, I'd guess. Sorry, but I found that my own reading of Happiness offered me a compellingly open set of visions for possible human futures, along with fiercely unsparing critiques of revolution, cultural, political, and metaphysical. We need poetry, these days, to dialogue with perennial values beyond the relativities of sensuality and The Self - that's Mr. Pollack's classical edge. But he's also an Outsider, a beat revolutionary, I imagine, not so much in retirement as in tactical retreat. This isn't an easy poem - book length narrative poems sort of can't be - but its rewards are, well, revolutionary...
Oh jeez..
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Clunky and inept; I'm surprised that this work was hyped. Even the Kirkus commercial review presented here is honest about it....
Amazing book - Read it!!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
In Happiness, as well as in his past work, Pollack manages to do the virtually impossible: create something which is exciting, entertaining as well as intellectually stimulating as well as staggering. Reading Happiness excited me tremendously. The reader can approach it from any one of a number of different directions and always hit the target dead on. A very important book.
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