Poetry Book Reviews - Jesse Dictor

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December 1, 2019

Poetry Book Review: Ravished

Ravished by Lydia Hack starts by breaking the mold of the one name dedications by calling them "inspirations". Her style is full of these types of cute quirks where she is engaged with the convention but still tailored as her own. Interestingly enough to me, she does a lot of the same "right side of the book only" poetry as…

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November 4, 2019

Michael Faudet’s 5 Poetry Books Reviewed All At Once

I've just finished reading through Michael Faudet's Poetry books- he's written five over the last few years - I mostly know him as the book attractive girls pose with and post to instagram and often will get a shout out from him after they do a sexy girl post. It gives you an idea of who his target audience is-…

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November 4, 2019

Poetry Book Review: Michael Faudet’s Cult of Two

Let's recall the last book, the 4rth in his series Winters of Summer. In it Michael has a character get an advanced copy of Cult of Two who makes some valid critiques of poetry (particularly Michael Faudet's style of poetry) and his character in the book hand waves it away as "that's a bit harsh, some of its pretty damn…

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November 4, 2019

Poetry Book Review: Michael Faudet’s Winters of Summer

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…

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November 4, 2019

Poetry Book Review: Michael Faudet’s Smoke & Mirrors

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…

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November 4, 2019

Poetry Book Review: Michael Faudet’s Bitter Sweet Love

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…

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November 4, 2019

Poetry Book Review: Michael Faudet’s Dirty Pretty Things

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…

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August 9, 2019

A Cruelty Special to Our Species – Emily Jungmin Yoon – 45/100

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…

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July 10, 2019

Poetry Review: The Boatloads Poems by Dan Albergotti

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…

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July 9, 2019

Poetry Review: The Endless Voyage (English and Spanish Edition) by Laureano Alban

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…

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