The Line-up #2
My experience with poetry lately has been wrapped in a world of Frost, Donne, Shakespeare, and Whitman. Heavy hitters, for sure, speaking about the world of summer days, winding forest roads, Lincoln, and eternal love. An 8th graders' crash course.
So, when I opened my copy of The Line-up #2 (edited by Gerald So, Patrick Shawn Bagley, R Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone), I wasn't sure what to expect. Was I going to get quick rhymes telling stories of bankrobbers? Was I going to see a murder compared to a summer's day?
Of course not.
I got small, dark moments. A dying man in the back of an ambulance, his identity a mystery. A woman mourning her son's death in Baghdad. Not bank robberies, not many mass murders. Just the darkness the world can bring on a daily basis.
The crimes here aren't big, thriller moments. They're small crimes. Crimes of the heart.
A book full of melancholy. A book full of small emotions expanded by words.
I loved every line. Nice job, folks.
So, when I opened my copy of The Line-up #2 (edited by Gerald So, Patrick Shawn Bagley, R Narvaez, and Anthony Rainone), I wasn't sure what to expect. Was I going to get quick rhymes telling stories of bankrobbers? Was I going to see a murder compared to a summer's day?
Of course not.
I got small, dark moments. A dying man in the back of an ambulance, his identity a mystery. A woman mourning her son's death in Baghdad. Not bank robberies, not many mass murders. Just the darkness the world can bring on a daily basis.
The crimes here aren't big, thriller moments. They're small crimes. Crimes of the heart.
A book full of melancholy. A book full of small emotions expanded by words.
I loved every line. Nice job, folks.
Labels: Book Reviews, Dave the bad poet, Gerald So, Poetry, The Line-up
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