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Title: Very Uneven Collection of Self-Indulgent Poems
Review: Reading clearly has talent, but it lies in the realm of the succenct haiku-like cryptogram. Many of these poems are first-draft indulgences, collected in a helter-skelter manner. This book would clearly not have been published in America, nor could it have gotten past many of the poetry manuscript contests here. Reading is best at keeping his mouth shut ("Alert!", a poem several pages in length should have never been written, let alone published) and his thoughts mysterious. And if there is a failure here, it's in Reading's lack of an editor (an editor who is also a ruthless critic). Every writer needs one, Reading more than most.
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