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Beauty Was The Case That They Gave Me (2011)

by Mark Leidner(Favorite Author)

4.56 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0983520305 (ISBN13: 9780983520306)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Factory Hollow Press

review 1: Calling this a book of poetry doesn't quite explain it. It's more like an ancient book of Eastern philosophy, the kind full of little maxims, each verse a self-contained nugget of wisdom, except instead of ancient it's supremely modern, all it's lessons gleaned from TV and movies and technology, at once reflecting on and ascribing meaning to modernity's seemingly meaninglessness. Yes, what I just said there, that's it. Except it's not.
review 2: I'm conflicted about this book. The poems, more than form/content/style, reside entirely in whether the line by line works for you, and as such I found the collection very inconsistent, not just from piece to piece but within the poems. Some lines blew me away, were so spot on in their juxtaposition that I had a new way... more of thinking; others felt like fillers, or an approximation of a certain kind of poetry. There's really good talent here, and I'm looking forward to how Mr. Leidner grows as a poet. less

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