She Didn't Mean to Do It (Pitt Poetry Series)

Rating:
Summary: So so
Review: Poems leave you with a daze or should when they're good like you
have been amazingly changed in a small way. These seem like they
try too hard like they are too obvious so you don't feel like that. At least I didn't. I like the use of the words, I just didn't find them clicking together in a way that made them more than just the words. I'm not a major expert or English person; somebody gave me this. So some of what other people are saying goes over my head. But I guess I shouldn't have to be an expert to "get this" or have it get to me.

Rating:
Summary: seriously nervy and good
Review: This is a book I wish I'd written. Since I didn't, I'll settle for reading it (three times so far). It's nervy, urban (but accessible to me, who grew up on the edge of cornfields), funny as hell, and has language sharp and bright as glass. There's no pretention here, and there's a real ground-level view of city life, personal life, and politics made personal. Alternately gorgeous, funny, politically subtle but profound. Also very solidly crafted.

Rating:
Summary: Fried's macho poems enchant and vervify
Review: With all due respect, are these other reviewers clouded by hormones, fashionably scornful, or just full of popsicles? Come ON! Daisy Fried is one of the most original voices to hit the planet. Who does she sound like? Nobody! She is the champ of anti-chick poems, writing unsentimentally about what girls care about; she is the original combo plate, truly funny and truly feeling at once. The sound of her work is rhythmic, musical; she's got the beat of real life underneath it all. She SEES and her writing shows it. The woman's got nerve and verve to spare. I could eat for these poems for days and find something new in them to love. I look forward to more from this fresh in every sense writer.