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Review title: mostly asterisks
Product review: the work in this book is an example of why poetry is marginal and going to remain that way. Kelsey is more interested in white space than in language, which means that not only the pages but the poems themselves are empty. I tried reading the poems aloud to see if that gave them any more substance, to see if there was something compelling about the actual sounds that silent reading didn't evoke, but unfortunately, there's not much music to found in these poems. There are, however, many, many asterisks--the book is littered with them. And like the lines of letters and words Kelsey arranges, they're symbols of lack you really just skip over. Skip the book too.
