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I was looking throught the OSC library and came across 'An Open Book.' I went to go look at it through the amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com links but they led me nowhere. Is it out yet and if so can someone send me a link to help me out. Thanks
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I loved the epic poem that the Alvin Maker series is based on. If the others are even half as good, it'll be a masterpiece.
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I'm really looking forward to this. I'm also looking forward to Maps in a Mirror being rereleased!!! That will be great.
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Alvin Maker is based on an epic poem? Oh goody goody gimmee that. I wanna read it. Is it just called Alvin Maker?
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From the Hatrack Library: "Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow" self-published, rev. ed. published Sunstone 89; first prize, Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, long serious poem category 1981; basis of Tales of Alvin Maker.
You can also read it in Maps in a Mirror.
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While I'll reserve any kind of final judgment until after I've read the collection, I have to say I'm extremely wary of this book. I've encountered a handful of OSC's poems before, and I don't remember any of them rising above mediocrity. To me, this smacks of "successful novelist who doesn't write good poetry banks on his prose reputation to get a book of poems published," and I'm not very excited about that. But we'll see how it turns out.
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quote:"The first reading should reward the reader. If later readings reveal new insights, so much the better; but if the first reading did not achieve Dryden's recipe of sweetness and light, why should a reader return for a second pass?"
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