Ethan Paquin

There's more experiment than focus here, but much of the language is interesting enough to make each individual poem a compelling single piece of work. The problem, though, is that many of them don't have a clear (or even ambiguously communicated) language based meaning when a reader stops to give a poem more careful examination. Especially because of this, the collection as a whole just isn't as compelling as I'd hope for in a poetry collection. Similarly, while there are many fascinating moments of language and imagery, there just aren't full poems that stand out to me as that fascinating or driven. Without poems like that, I probably won't come back to this collection. Without a doubt, I'd probably recommend this book to poets who are practicing experimental work or to readers interested in new experimental writing...but it's definitely not for everyone, or even most.… (més)