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Dispatch From The Future: Poems (2012)

by Leigh Stein(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1612191347 (ISBN13: 9781612191348)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Melville House

review 1: What did I just read? Poetry, this book is trying to tell me to which I respond: REALLY?? This is poetry?? Well, in any case it's bad poetry and it's an hour of my life that I will never get back. I guess I can live with that. What I can't live with is this incessant need to be over the top clever that the heart and soul of the writing gets left behind. There were a couple of highlights, but not enough for me to not want to throw this pretentious book at the wall. I wanted to like it, I really did, but it kept haunting, jabbing and peeling away at my patience and reasonably calm state of mind. I want my money back.
review 2: I'm usually not a huge fan of poetry, but because I really loved "The Fallback Plan", I was drawn to read some Leigh Stein's poetry, and I... more'm glad I did. It's clever, but it definitely doesn't take itself too seriously, and I actually enjoyed jumping through the pages, and found it easy to read one poem after another. (I'm also super excited because I found something Kelly Link-esque in Stein's writing, which is just yay). less

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