Hello Darkness Collected Poems

by L.E. Sissman

Book Overview

Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems Of L. E. Sissman This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316793124
• ISBN13: 9780316793124
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Little Brown Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An American Classic

L.E. Sissman was a wonderful poet. So, why haven't you heard of him? Well, for one thing, he wrote in a style that might've been a bit too old-fashioned for the tastes of many critics. Perhaps more importantly, he can't be easily classified -- he belonged to no particular school or movement -- and this will render a poet invisible to some academics. Also, there's a faint upper-middle-class hauteur about some of Sissman's poems that puts him beyond the pale for many critics and academics. It's purely a matter of taste: either you love Sissman, or you don't.For me, reading his poetry starting with his first book, Dying: An Introduction, and following his career through to the very death he'd been writing about, was a poignant experience back in the 1960s and 1970s. This collection enables younger readers to experience the same pain and the same joy Sissman's contemporary readers felt. A not-to-be-missed experience.In addition to the poems addressing his own mortallity, there are autobiographical poems and many lyrical meditations, all expressed in Sissman's beautifully crafted style. Highest recommendation.

An excellent book of poem stories about this man's life.

This is a very good book that has insipried me to keep writing poems (mainly to my girlfriend). The style of writing is very original even though that is how I have always written myself. Cheers to a very inspirational book with a deceiving title.