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| Tell Me (American Poets Continuum) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kim Addonizio
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 267901
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 90
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 1880238918
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781880238912
ASIN: 1880238918
Publication Date: July 1, 2000
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 Form and Narrative Hit the Streets September 1, 2000
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is a marvelous tonic for those who denigrate the contemporary use of traditional form and storytelling in poems. Old fashioned? Out of date? Read this book and Wake Up! Smart, sassy, funny, sexy, tender and bold, these poems give us the news of a wild, humane world that I, for one, am delighted to wake up living in. In a world of so many poet-phonies, Addonizio is grounded. Her poems are the real deal.
 Woman walks into a bar February 20, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
These are what used to be called confessional poems, narrating and meditating on the life of a person who is effectively identical to the author (same job, same family, etc.). They are sometimes quite witty, as when she describes trying to teach a group of writing students who are "desperate to publish, though criminally indifferent to actual poetry."
On the other hand, about half the poems can be summed up by the opening of "One Night Stands": "Those men I f***ed when I was drunk, / I can't even see their faces..." Bar culture is not exactly a fresh topic, but beyond that, it becomes really depressing to read poem after poem in which the narrator marvels that her strategy of getting plastered and sleeping with anything that moves has not yet brought her true love. Most people I know had figured this out long before their daughters were in college (actually, one might suggest that the author would have had more fun spending some time with her daughter).
Straightforward, solid poems April 5, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Addonizio uses a conversational linguistic strategy. Her work is exceedingly accessible and clear. She uses a personal authority to make broad statements about contemporary life, but is not confessional. One senses that her best work is yet to come, but that Tell Me will be a popular collection. I enjoyed this volume and (full disclosure) have worked briefly with the author.
kim's latest collection is as awesome as her first June 17, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tell Me is as wonderful as Philosopher's Club. The poems have a raw, sensuous power to them. They feel confessional without being confessionalist poetry. This is just an awesome collection from a wonderful poet. I'm turning into such a fan of hers that i may have to become president of the fan club.
A beautiful book February 2, 2002
Evocative and beautiful, the poems in Tell Me linger long after they're finished. While most are dark and intensely personal, they defy the conceit of so many other poets. Instead, Addonizio is honest, even playful with the dark subjects she writes on.
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