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| Cherish the Muse | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeffrey Godwin
Publisher: Palm Tree Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1860158
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 136
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0979441668
EAN: 9780979441660
ASIN: 0979441668
Publication Date: October 9, 2008
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Cherish the Muse is a medley of the words of love inspired by women everywhere. Spanning decades, relationships, dreams and discoveries this poetry volume plays out melodies of feelings and paints pictures of the women who touch our hearts and our lives every day. The images collide with the diversity of life and form a collage which defines the muse. Anyone who has felt the many facets of love will feel a familiar touch in this collection. From empowerment to commitment, joy to missing and need, the pieces in this book range from touching and fresh to loss and repairing. A taste of sensual flavor rounds out an offering that truly includes something for everyone.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Worse than poetry.com January 7, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book because it was recommended to me by Amazon's "We have recommendations for you" feature. I read a lot of poetry; I write and publish a lot of poetry and I'm a sucker for love poems and Melanie Griffith and Meg Ryan movies. The idea of reading book of poetry about and dedicated to women intrigued me.
I read the editorial review here at Amazon and ordered it. Unfortunately, I did this hastily and didn't Google the author or the publisher beforehand. Had I done so, I would have learned that the book is published by a vanity press and that the author has no publishing credits at legitimate literary journals. Upon receiving the book, I noted that there is no acknowledgments page, indicating that none of the poems had been published before. There's a reason for this: the poems are simply too awful to make it past the slush pile of a literary journal.
It would not be an exaggeration to say this is the worst poetry I've read outside of poetry.com. Truly, only a 14 year-old-girl who had received them hand-written on pink stationary from her poetaster boyfriend could take any pleasure from them.
This collection of poems--heartfelt though they may be--exhibits all of the features of "smitten adolescent" poetry: it is riddled with cliches and abstractions. There is plenty of mention of "love," "soul," "warmth" and "tenderness" but the poems are virtually devoid of concrete imagery of any kind. I looked in vain for a single fresh trope or turn of phrase. The rhyming poems are technically incompetent, with end-stopped, trite rhymes and no effort at meter or enjambment.
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I wish I could have been more positive in my review, but there simply is nothing praiseworthy in this collection.
 I fell in love all over again. October 21, 2008
These heart-warming poems should be read by everyone. I am particularly fond of "The seats aren't perfectly straight" and "two.sixty.two". Buy it, buy it now!
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