An Appreciation Paper on Poet Lenny DellaRocca

Not many people are honored to say they were in the presents of a famous poet who read to them. This semester in my poetry class I was in the presence of eight poets including the one I am going to write about today, his name is Lenny DellaRocca. When I first saw Lenny DellaRocca go through the doors into my classroom I had a feeling I was not going to like him for some reason. As soon as he got settled in and started reading my feeling changed about not liking him and I enjoyed every word that came out of his mouth. With his poems I feel like he does not hold back, like he does not even care about how anyone would feel about his words and I liked that about his poems. I favorite poem from Lenny DellaRocca is called ‘The Last Laugh’. The reason why I liked this poem so much is because it is so real. He says what is on his mind and does not change words around to try to sugar coat anything. Some of my favorite parts of the poem are,
“We sat in the office smoking cigarettes drinking coffee talking to installers ate pot brownies you baked the night before while The Others
The Straight Ones looked at us suspiciously”.
The reason why I liked this part of the poem is because not a lot of people talk about smoking cigarettes because people are against it because it kills people. So for him to say that to me it means that he does not care about what other people think of him. Also, when he said eating pot brownies; that to me means he is fearless. The reason why I believe that he is fearless is because not a lot of people do drugs and a lot of people judge others because they do drugs so when he said he was doing a kind of drug is brave of him. I feel like he does not care what other people think and I admire people like that. Also something I really did not understand is when he said, The Straight Ones. That line through me off guard because when he was telling the class about his life he said he has a wife so I am pretty confused about that one line. Another