Denis Johnson is life. ( )

This collection started out really well, climaxed with the poems from The Incognito Lounge, then went downhill from there (pretty far downhill with those collected under New Poems). It was as though Denis Johnson got cocky and fired whatever internal editor had kept him focused all the while before. Either way, this is definitely worth a read.

I'm not sure you you can read into this, but my copy was signed and dedicated by Denis Johnson to a woman named Susan. That I have this book can only mean Susan wasn't very moved. ( )

This collection started out really well, climaxed with the poems from The Incognito Lounge, then went downhill from there (pretty far downhill with those collected under New Poems). It was as though Denis Johnson got cocky and fired whatever internal editor had kept him focused all the while before. Either way, this is definitely worth a read.

I'm not sure you you can read into this, but my copy was signed and dedicated by Denis Johnson to a woman named Susan. That I have this book can only mean Susan wasn't very moved. ( )

Skipped around. Liked what I read. A lot. But not enough to keep at it, given the stack of books I'm working through right now.