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Title: Oh, Please
Review: Jewel, what were you thinking? Let me guess....your agent mentions a book deal and your eyes turned into dollar signs. Understandable, given your age and inexperience, but surely someone must have tried to talk you out of it? These "poems" are nothing but poorly wrought, moony, childish nonsense. "Sausages slipped from her pockets/I hope she misses them sorely"? Spare me! Even more offensive than your clumsy verse is the cleverly deceptive packaging, making this seem like a substantial literary work. In reality, everything is double or triple spaced, with far too many 2 or 4 line poems. Note to Jewel: Read Dickinson or Poe for lessons in sparse beauty. A Night Without Armor (ooh, clever!) reads like random scraps from a songwriter's notebook--words or phrases that, given time and effort, could have gone on to be good songs. I felt nothing but pain and embarrassment reading this sophomoric schlock. Do yourself a favor, Jewel, and keep it to yourself.
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