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You Can Make Anything Sad (2014)

by Spencer Madsen(Favorite Author)

4.42 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0988750368 (ISBN13: 9780988750364)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Publishing Genius Press

review 1: One never really finishes reading a book of poems. Poetry is meant to be read and re-read. Something I will surely do with Spencer Madsen’s You Can Make Anything Sad. Spencer’s poetry reads like quotes or slogans that you might want to put on a bumper sticker. They are fun and meaningful. The book is divided into two kinds of poems. There are his dated poems spanning from September 26, 2012 to March 8, 2013. Take for example this from his November 13, 2012 poem: “In life there is usually someone nearby having a really intense time doing a really boring thing.” Then there are his theme poems on such topics as Ideas (Instead of asking your neighbors “how are you?” try “Yes or no.”), Dance (A new dance called are there any flights that go to my childhood), Thi... morengs (Date me once, wake up to my passive-aggressive emails for life.) and so forth.He begins his poem Friday, October 19, 2012 like this: “There are some colors that only certain butterflies and seafloor creatures can perceive. We only see a portion of the color spectrum.”After reading this poetry book I felt like the spectrum of my creativity had been opened in ways I had never before experienced. Spencer is of the new generation sprouting out of New York. To read his poetry is to get a glimpse of a fresh kind of creativity.
review 2: Written like diary entries, with month/date/year titles, segued with poems that recommend or ponder, Spencer Madsen is the author and subject of his collection YOU CAN MAKE ANYTHING SAD. A narrative of sorts emerges from the pieces that, at first, read to me as disjointed, funny, observant, clever and deep aphorisms. But it all comes together to pack a wallop. Bigger than its parts, parts that are moving, transparent, like the invisible man/woman models I had as a kid. The poems or essays or stories or whatever, resonate, connect me to a sadness that is universal, and a young stranger’s voice is in my head that I want there. Because I recognize it, and want more. less

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