Not since On the Road has a book been more thoroughly of the road. Unlike Kerouac's novel, however, this book was literally written on the road in Gudding's own car, on pad and paper while driving. Rhode Island Notebook is the handwritten account of one driver's journey to happiness in the face of grief. This book-length poem chronicles the break-up of a family and the separation of a father and daughter, while at the same time recording the rise of jingoism in the United States in the moments before and during the invasion of Iraq.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 11/01/2007
ISBN: 9781564784797
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.87w x 1.18d

Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 10/15/2007 pg. 44
Library Journal 01/15/2008 pg. 106