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<p><p>irresistably Accessible Pig Poet - And Subject Of Pbs Documentary - Is Half Preacher, Half Farmer, Half Genius.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>lee's First Book, The Porcine Legacy (1974), Delineated The Themes And Style That He Has Investigated Right Up To His Latest Book. Young Feller, The Virgil-like John Advises The Poet In The Selected's Opening Loading A Boar, If You Wanna By God Write Pomes You Gotta Write Pomes About What You Know And Not About The Rest And You Can Write About Pigs And That Boar And Jan And You And Me And The Rest And There Aint No Way You're Gonna Quit. Lee Has Stuck To This Idea, Perhaps Too Closely, Though With Gestures Toward Variety. His Irreverence Is Not As Winning As, Say, James Tate's, Whom He Sometimes Resembles In His Half-ironic, But Never Cynical, View Of Life, And Displays None Of Tate's Formal Inclinations. Quite Often, The Poems Seem Like Magazine Fiction Mining A Prairie Home Companion-like Vein. At His Best, However, Strains Of Frost Or Edgar Lee Masters Come Through Clearly, As In The Short But Effective Idyll (also From The Selected), About Charley Baker's Idiot Girl/ [...] Picking Dandelions/ [...] Mind Empty As Sky, Which Ends: N

Author

David Lee

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556591310

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities