Title: Self-Absorbed & Self-Righteous
Review: The speaker of these poems, in his cavalier attitude and faux importance, is unbearable. The poetry is a bad cross of Mark Doty and Henri Cole, but the description here is overdone Doty, and the lacerative language is too overblown when compared to Cole. The run-to-the-top-of-the-hill-and-scream melodrama of these poems is just depressing to watch. Mark Wunderlich knows how to make poems--as evidenced here--but he is too concerned with being a "voice" and being THE voice of gay men. As a gay man, I don't want Mr. Wunderlich speaking for me. I much prefer to read poems in the voice of one gay man than poems where the speaker is trying so hard to be the voice of an entire group of people.
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