Mike Bond
Auteur van Saving Paradise
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Medvezhonok Paddington na ekskursii 2 exemplaren
Guía del buen viajero, México 1 exemplaar
Паддінгтон. У палаці. Лабіринт із джемом 1 exemplaar
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- 1943-03-25
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Beroepen
- author
environmental activist
human rights and war correspondent
poet
international energy expert - Relaties
- Bond, Peggy (spouse)
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Which house? (1)
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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- 307
- Populariteit
- #76,700
- Waardering
- 3.4
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- 82
- ISBNs
- 64
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- 3
Joy contains many poems, most fitting on a single page, some just a few lines. Most of the lines are very short, with only a very few exceeding six syllables. His themes include appreciating nature and celebrating life, and also dark, pessimistic views of life and a focus on death.
I am not a learned reader of poetry, so I cannot tell you quite what it was that left me so flat in reading these poems. Many of the short, pessimistic ones seem rather flip, and many of the earnest ones seem like something one might read on an inspirational poster. There is almost no detectable subtlety here, no instances of form and content reinforcing or commenting on one another. If there are invitations to think deeply about the poems' topics, I missed them. I'm afraid these particular poems did not open any new vistas wherein I might grasp what life is.
tl;dr: Meh. YMMV.… (meer)