L. E. Scott
Autor(a) de Speaking in tongues
Obras por L. E. Scott
Each Other's Dreams: Contemporary Black American Writing (Pacific Moana Quarterly Special Issues) (1982) 1 exemplar
King's Cross Pub poets 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
Membros
Críticas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Membros
- 19
- Popularidade
- #609,294
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
That said, many of the poems in the first half of this book felt flat to me without the lift provided by a poet's speaking voice. The title poem, half-way through the book, was the first poem that lifted it out of the ordinary, and after that, the poems get stronger. But the most memorable piece in the book is not a poem, but an essay, "An American Soldier". Lewis Scott was just such a soldier in Vietnam, and this gives his meditations on the Iraq war remarkable depth and richness.… (mais)