The Willow Grove

by Laurie Sheck

Book Overview

Laurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679766030
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.3" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Profound but Readable Poetry

Laurie Sheck's "The Willow Grove" is a collection of poetry for our western society as we enter the new millenium. Her poems mix the mythic and the metaphysical with current urban images. Sheck can make a TV with the volumn turned down haunt us. She can make us confront our own loss of innocense through portraying a child's view of an adult cocktail party.While Sheck's poetry is often dark and contains mythological references, it is extremely readable, even for readers who have not encountered poetry since high school. Reading it makes one realize what a shame it is that books of poetry so rarely make the best seller lists.