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Show Book review: Brautigan's 'Rommel Drives On' (Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt by Richard Brautigan; a Seymore Lawrence Book, Delacorte PressNew York) Richard Brautigan's latest book of poems is really a trip. Brautigan, ! for those unaware, is the thirty-five-year-old San Francisco writer, au-I au-I thor of Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar. Brautigan is also a frequent contributor con-tributor to Rolling Stone magazine. If you have a conservative, traditional taste for poetry, "fergitit" Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt is somewhere other than there. Here's a taste of one of his shorter poems: Critical Can Opener There is something wrong with this poem. Cart you ; find it? i copyright 1970 by R. Brautigan Always the unexpected, until you expect the unexpected, then he's straight always just one step ahead. Brautigan's imagination begins where John Lennon's leaves off. ' You can read this stuff and love it upon the first reading, but it gets better each time around. S. Poulson |
