EW's GRADE
C

Details Release Date: Apr 11, 2006; Writer: Mark Haddon; Genre: Poetry; Publisher: Vintage

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time's author writes poems more succinct than his titles.

Sample Verse
''They write a word/and then another word./It is usually wrong./Their crossings out are legion.''

Pop Culture Reference
''we feel like hunters from the lowlands/of the Congo hearing Elvis Presley/on a Walkman...''

Bottom Line
Suffers from Billy Collinsitis: coy humor as a fallback for sentimentality.

Originally posted Apr 07, 2006 Published in issue #872 Apr 14, 2006 Order article reprints

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