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Title: I await what is more substantial.
Review: Notable achievement for a first real collection but my overall view is that the work is self-serving, self-justifying and lacking in any of the real honesty its tone lays claim to. Many parts are clichéd, the only crime in this being that the clichés do not even seem to connect with the writer on the level suggested, let alone a reader. I thought Kahn used too many words; conveyed an expectation of the reader to devour and accept rather than to read. The entire collection screams 'read me, analyze me!' but analysis proves disappointing. Not poor, but I definitely thought the work was 'trying to be' rather than just being. Perhaps he writes too close to home.
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