Comp Poems R. Bradbury

Who would have thought that Bradbury was such a fine poet? He tended toward the miniature as he grew older, honing these to a mirror finish. This collection contains a number of poems from different periods of his life.They are not "Mary had a little lamb" type, the mediocore lines of an Alan Ginzberg or the blank verse of T.S Elliot. Each poem carries an apt titled, the language always rich and correct. These are not words of (necessarily) wisdom nor are they deep, obtuse thoughts. Rather they are like his prose, easygoing, informative and flowing. Bradbury's poems have an internal rhthym with a fine meter.He, unlike many writers of the modern age, does not suffer from xenomania. He was, like Ben Franklin, the quintessential countryman, self-accomplished, hard-working and gifted in both practicality and style. I have one of the first books published on Disney's EPCOT; Bradbury wrote the introduction. This was before the experiment became mired in politics, commercialism, triteness and showmanship. His words captured the moment of both the place and the era...so do his poems.