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conversations.value: a description for a book titled Hello Sunshine about Reed, Unfortunately, Charles with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Poetry
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conversations.value: the author is among his generation's most gifted and important singer/songwriters. Just into his 30s, the author has already released a dozen albums jammed with soul-stirring songs and frighteningly precise lyrics about love, loss, and youthful wildness. Unfortunately, these distinctions and qualities do not translate to his poetry, which seems to be more a kind of performative journaling than an attempt at high art. But perhaps that's a kind of poetry too. If so, it's poetry in the manner of late Charles Bukowski&mdash;alternately ecstatic, drunken, droll, bewildered, jokey&mdash;and will appeal to a similar audience: teenagers looking for a guide through the confusing maze of adolescence. the author's many rabid fans will find much to enjoy in this second collection, following right on the heels of his poetry debut, <I>Infinity Blues</I> (2009). the author takes his readers through his crazy days, high on adrenaline (bicyclemad/ born dizzy/ i am/ flying off the cliff of panic hill), praising the beloved (i love her/ my bug/ she knows...) and finding the symbolism in the everyday: the sky.../...just got back from the grocery store, smiling/ new particles to add to the table of contents/ in some lunar book/ written in wishes. <I>(Dec.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.