The fourth book of his flirtatious and simple series, this book steps away from its poetic side and has many more “short series of sentences”. They have a title, but they lack many of the indicators you are looking at a poem as oppose to an Instagram caption. His poetry and short sentences are much less romantic then his previous…
Starting into this book makes it much less sexy then the first book. I can’t say I love the intense sexy side, but I know the target demographic does, and I am a little surprised to found he walked away from his one solid trick. There are much fewer short stories written in this book as well. What is left…
I was expecting this book to be the first book all over again. In that regard, they are very similar. Reading them back to back gave the impression that some of the poems were essentially recycled from book to book. “Unclipping my bra, we are naughty now” That said- this is actually just right. Its a follow up gift to…
Michael Faudet has always been a poet I resisted as he existed as a cliche of “I write sexy poetry and sexy women take pictures with my sexy poetry book”. I never really gave his works a deep read. He recently released his fifth book, and I decided he’s probably worked his way into being a meaningful contemporary poets and…
A Cruelty Special to our SpeciesEmily Jungmin Yoon 45/100 I feel slightly disappointed how well the back of the book paints the author so clearly, I worry it will hurt my ability to parse the book properly. I will admit though, that her opening at the book (written by herself, and where she shows her sources) feels very honest and…
This book was selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize- which is weird, since Edward Hirsch also wrote the forward. The prize is $1000 dollars and help them get published. I’m not going to dig to hard into this aspect of the poetry book because it has nothing to do with the…
This is probably a good moment to mention that I probably should research the books I review more before reviewing them. Googling this book after reading it shows there are a lot of new books with the same name, and that this review will either be confusing to people or just incredibly out of date. The while this book is…
This is my first poetry book review so I wanted to go over how I want to rate Poetry books I read and to start to refine how I review and rate books. So take this review with a physical pound of salt, and be ready to explore and learn how I want to review poetry. It might actually grow…
I’m going to have to give this 25 out of a 100. I was worried about talking too poorly on this book because it’s not fun to try to rip apart someone who is just trying to launch their first book. There is a fear that the first review an author ever read will be my own, and if I…
Between You and These Bones was the best poetry book I read in June. I felt the need to open with this because Between You and These Bones’ own opening letter is so bad I had to comment on it and I didn’t want you seeing how much I hated the opening letter and walked away thinking I hated this…