I never heard of Jason Shinder until earlier this year when I read his poem "How I Am“ someplace by chance. I loved this book. Shinder, with the help of his dying mom, managed to break my heart on pretty much every other page. Very poignant poems of someone approaching death, as well as confronting ...
Five stars for the poem itself; three stars for essays ranging from brilliant to coma-inducingly boring. There were about a hundred more pages than a book like this truly needed.
I pretty good collection of poems, but the layout left much to be desired. The contributing actors who I recognized weren't the ones who gave explanations of why the read the poems. I also didn't really like the readings on the audio CD. A disappointment.
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