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Red
Suburb
Reviews
Indie Bound Poetry Top Ten
Publishing Triangle Award Winner
Minnesota Book Award Finalist
ForeWord:
“[Hewett]
investigates the suburbs from a more critical angle:
manicured lawns, cold secretive families wanting
nothing outside the American dream, and young people
learning to appreciate their own identities outside
conformity and expectations.”
Corresponder:
“Hewett
reaches into the desire to be understood, the need
for love, the pain and humor of living, and explores
subtle themes that are not dependent on a person's
lifestyle but true to everyone.“
Bruce Bond:
“What
a luminous and alluring book, artful in the best
sense of never advertising its art, never straining
for effect, ever surprising with its wit and imaginative
resourcefulness, its unpretentious yet authoritative
voice, its heartbreaking authenticity, its intelligence,
its eye, its lust, its charm. These are poems written
by a large sensibility, both contemporary and historically
aware, disciplined and supple, unsentimental and affectionate,
verbally playful and soulfully engaged.”
Alfred Corn:
“If
Greg Hewett's poems startle us with their unexpected
turns and sudden opening onto depths, the credit
must go to his special courage in confronting the
fact of death and still pursuing, undaunted, his
finely calibrated probings of experience. Sharp,
original phrasing wryly fends off routine sentimentality
and the posture of victimization. With this book
he achieves his full stature as a poet.”
Jerry Bilek, St. Olaf College Bookstore, Northfield,
MN:
“This
is quite a collection of poems that speak for a generation
as they pine for happiness. Greg Hewett has a great
voice.”
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