Title: Disappointing performance
Product review: I bought this book with high hopes after reading Bowling's stellar "The Thin Smoke of the Heart," a book filled with tight powerful poems, and was sorely disappointed. This felt like the early draft manuscript of a book, or a collection of outtakes from Thin Smoke. It is structurally flaccid, overburdened with pop philosophizing, and contains a shocking number of truly bad lines. Perhaps Bowling was trying to take his poetry in a new direction. He should retrace his steps.
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