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Title: Navel-gazing dreck and hysteria, not for the serious reader
Review: I could hardly get through this book in its entirety, so I quit trying. The poems in this book all seem to have been written by a poet with a tin ear, with no regard for nuance or understatement. He hits the same notes repeatedly and uses the exact same style in every poem in the book, and seems desperate to be clever in a really transparent way. But it doesn't work. There is no variety of concerns, and a notable lack of elegance or even real meaning. This is apparently the product of an arrogant but misguided poet striving to be ambitious and different, but what we really have here is more of the status quo, rendered in a syrupy style that is sickening after a while. Maybe this is the stuff that sells. Some may fall for this kind of verse but it's not what true poetry is all about, and any serious reader will recognize that fact.
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