In my last blog response I spoke briefly about the purpose of Ed Roberson's book "The City Eclogue" and about the confusion I had. I struggled with understanding many of the poems, it seemed as if his general topic was nature and his city but he often times went away from that and I had a difficult time analyzing the poems collectively. A book of poems should all be similar or at least have a common message and I personally felt as if Ed Roberson did not portray his message clearly.
The style of his writings are one of the consistencies he has throughout the book. He puts large spaces in between words and that catches the audiences attention. The spaces were distracting to me and unnecessary, It looked to me as if Roberson did not have many similarities in the book so he made an easy but noticeable pattern to follow throughout his poems, to me it looked forced.
Although Ed Roberson's book is not my favorite, the poem I was able to enjoy the most was "The Distant Stars as Paparazzi" (Page 21). It was simply his thoughts as he admired to the stars and how big the universe actually is. He breaks down the universe into a self destructing feedback loop in this poem through his visuals and examples he uses in the beginning. He starts the poem out with "The News cattle birds of paper fly around thinking a movie shot" (Page 21) and I found this interesting because it caught my attention immediately. Due to media and our advancements in technology, news travels fast and movie shots flip back and forth between scenes so quick yet smooth, this poem describes the way we are all interconnected and I found it very enjoyable.
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