Letters to Wendy's
by Joe Wenderoth

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Book Reviews of Letters to Wendy's

Book Review: A work of genius
Summary: 5 Stars

The Wenderoth book was published and made the rounds as poetry -- now marketed as fiction, assumedly for sales or to avoid getting sued, it circumnavigates the problem of defining form. In fiction, there would be no debate of subject matter, of sending-up Wendy's, and including details from daily life, porno movies, what have you.

But in the realm of modern American poetry, this book is the most significant series of poems since Berryman's Dream Songs. Simply the act of putting these subjects into poems is revolutionary, but to put it into a larger work makes it genius. There's a certain stamina from reading a book like this, when you know it's a book of poems -- show me someone who read Paterson one day on the beach, or the all the Cantos one afternoon at a cafe. Reading these 20-30 at a time, you feel like this is something that *needs* to have been written, to include philosophy and Biggies and incest jokes in one volume of poems. To speak from the vantage point of a fast-food flaneur who writes better than most poets, but chooses, in the fictive world of the book, to only write to Wendy. A must.

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