Hitler Painted Roses

Rating:
Summary: Dark Side Of The Imagination
Review: I decided to check out Steve Richmond's work after reading a line in LIFSHIN & RICHMOND, "...all I see is the enlarging face of bugs bunny laughing...unfunny unfeeling ungood in any way to me..." which intrigued me as a nightmare vision. HITLER PAINTED ROSES also displayed a fascinatingly dark imagination but was too slight a volume to give me much of an impression of his work.

Rating:
Summary: A True American Original.
Review: Steve Richmond's poetry is probably the best "undiscovered" writing in America today. This reissued volume of old and new poems is good, but his best book is the long out-of-print tome EARTH ROSE. Regardless, or maybe in spite, of Richmond's relationship with American-icon Charles Bukowski, these poems stand up and holler on their own.