Böcker av Robert Fedell

These poems provide for readers what Harold Bloom deems "difficult pleasure." The intellectual challenges in many of these poems can educate and inspire-- with the reader's participation. Also, they may elicit a chuckle or two if the irony is recognized. Some are political, laced with scathing satire that may offend. Various personae speak in the first person; only a few represent my philosophy of life and politics. I have tried to put the best words in the best order. I have used the sonnet form, believing that the modern reader has little patience with longer poems in this Age Of Impatience . Other collections include the following: Multiverse, Poetic Jazz, Semantic Antics, Poems For An Impatient Age, A Few Hundred Original Poetic Monologues, and Mugsy ( a play).

This is a collection of poetic interior monologues delivered in a variety of voices, dealing with politics, race, economics, science, psychology, history, art, philosophy, sex, vocations, avocations, sports, etc. These eclectic speakers do not necessarily reflect the author's personal ideas on these subjects. The self-nominated Pulitzer Prize competitor thinks that this is his best work yet in the context of four earlier poetic collections and one play. Most of the poems are written in a traditional form (i.e. sonnet), but there are others in blank verse or free verse. The interior monologues of Robert Browning have been an inspiration as have the plays of a fellow named William Shakespeare!

This is a play about the haunting guilt caused by a father's suicide, and the son's attempt to pay tribute to his father's noble sacrifice through his writing of poetry, which some say, like his acerbic wife, is pedestrian and derivative. he believes he can redeem his father's death through his verse. Mugsy, his dog, is the only one who doesn't criticize his poetry when he reads it aloud to him ( which he does often in the play).

This is a collection of poems worthy of a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry