Edgar Holmes
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Her Favorite Color Was Yellow von Edgar Holmes
I didn’t mind this, you can clearly see that this man loves his wife and it’s not the creepy love so I support men who express their feelings in this way. A few poems have struck with me which was nice and they are very lovely and sweet.
Since I don't usually read poetry, I will put it in the 2021 PopSugar Reading Prompt #35. A book in a different format than what you normally read
I'd feel bad if I give it a low rating. I don't hate it that much, it's just that I'd rather not waste my money to read this. It already has snarky reviews, so I won't make it harsh.
I can think of a more original input for the contents of this book.
I'd feel bad if I give it a low rating. I don't hate it that much, it's just that I'd rather not waste my money to read this. It already has snarky reviews, so I won't make it harsh.
I can think of a more original input for the contents of this book.
Was able to get this book for free-- saw it was part of a series and had fairly favorable reviews on Amazon. I'll say upfront I know nothing about the author.
But oof. Setting aside the shallow and predictable message, the tone is sort of troubling. It sounds like a dude who is honestly kind of toxic and horrible, and if the author truly is a good guy he should reconsider how he presents himself. Every once and a while I would stumble upon a line that was actually kind of sweet, but it never quite crossed into anything profound, and even the good moments were passing. It seemed more like swinging a dead cat and occasionally hitting something, rather than anything intentional or well planned.
Hopefully this doesn't come off as too negative, but it's truly not very good. I thought maybe it was for younger audiences, but the sexual imagery is crass and occasionally problematic. His depiction of the woman in his life is at best occasionally problematic. One of the only things I appreciate here is that the author does experiment with page alignment, which is kind of a pedestrian gimmick but one that I personally appreciate seeing.
It's biggest mistake is one that I often find in modern poetry, and it's a problem that is my most common reason for disliking someone's work: it feels like it's for profit. Someone just filled 100 pages of random shit so they can avoid a 9-5 job, since the author himself said at the end that having such a job would be the death of him. Whatever.… (mehr)
But oof. Setting aside the shallow and predictable message, the tone is sort of troubling. It sounds like a dude who is honestly kind of toxic and horrible, and if the author truly is a good guy he should reconsider how he presents himself. Every once and a while I would stumble upon a line that was actually kind of sweet, but it never quite crossed into anything profound, and even the good moments were passing. It seemed more like swinging a dead cat and occasionally hitting something, rather than anything intentional or well planned.
Hopefully this doesn't come off as too negative, but it's truly not very good. I thought maybe it was for younger audiences, but the sexual imagery is crass and occasionally problematic. His depiction of the woman in his life is at best occasionally problematic. One of the only things I appreciate here is that the author does experiment with page alignment, which is kind of a pedestrian gimmick but one that I personally appreciate seeing.
It's biggest mistake is one that I often find in modern poetry, and it's a problem that is my most common reason for disliking someone's work: it feels like it's for profit. Someone just filled 100 pages of random shit so they can avoid a 9-5 job, since the author himself said at the end that having such a job would be the death of him. Whatever.… (mehr)
Meh.
This poet is also fond of the random spacing technique like Rupi Kaur, which is quickly becoming a pet peeve of mine when it comes to poetry. Instead of just trying to format something into prettiness and hoping that it will come across as ~deep, why not, oh I don't know, actually write something that IS deep?
The author is obsessively in love with his wife or muse or girlfriend or whoever she is - uncomfortably so, at least for me. We are told in numerous strings of words that he'll die without her, that his life has no meaning without her in it, etc, etc. Maybe that's okay for younger people who haven't, you know, lived and loved and lost and loved again and lost again and realize that life does, indeed, go on, even if you don't want it to at some points. For me, I was left thinking that I probably would have enjoyed this maybe fifteen years ago, but now it doesn't do anything for me.
At least it was free on Kindle Unlimited!… (mehr)
This poet is also fond of the random spacing technique like Rupi Kaur, which is quickly becoming a pet peeve of mine when it comes to poetry. Instead of just trying to format something into prettiness and hoping that it will come across as ~deep, why not, oh I don't know, actually write something that IS deep?
The author is obsessively in love with his wife or muse or girlfriend or whoever she is - uncomfortably so, at least for me. We are told in numerous strings of words that he'll die without her, that his life has no meaning without her in it, etc, etc. Maybe that's okay for younger people who haven't, you know, lived and loved and lost and loved again and lost again and realize that life does, indeed, go on, even if you don't want it to at some points. For me, I was left thinking that I probably would have enjoyed this maybe fifteen years ago, but now it doesn't do anything for me.
At least it was free on Kindle Unlimited!… (mehr)
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