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Title: Down on My Knees...Deflated
Review: I have a strong interest in meditative poetry and assumed that this book would provide some profound commentary to enlighten me further in my readings and re-readings. No such luck. I found the author to be arbitrary in her selections, one-dimensional in her interpretations, and--what makes both of those qualities even worse--she has the kind of nagging insistence of a know-it-all schoolmarm. Her directive tone is so domineering that she almost has to be insincere at the core. One does hope to open up to another reader's suggestions about a text, but this author has the effect of making me want to slam my doors and shutter my windows. (Perhaps her relentless misreading of Blake encouraged me to invoke those images. Actually, I just closed the book!) I suppose I more than most don't like being preached at, but even so, most readers would agree, I think, that Rosenthal's sermonizing is a ministry to avoid.
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