I enjoyed this collection a lot. Jan Steckel is a bisexual woman and a doctor with a wide range of life experiences reflected in her poetry. Her voice is authentic and she does not pull her punches, and I value that. ( )

The review copy of this book came with a business card from the publishing company, Zeitgeist Press, and the tagline on that card is “Poetry you can actually read”. And that is true with The Horizontal Poet, to some extent. Some of the poems are very easy to read and straightforward, while other are more abstract and difficult to follow. Many, however, are medical, describing life inside a hospital. Some of these include medical terminology completely lost on me, which made that tagline a little odd in relation to The Horizontal Poet...

Read the rest of my review here: http://lesbrary.com/2012/06/09/danika-reviews-the-horizontal-poet-by-jan-steckel... ( )

I got this book through the Goodreads Giveaways.The poems were well written. They showed me the life of the author and there were various poems describing different aspects of her life including different cities, settings, etc. The pictures they created in your mind were well conceived and easy to put together, many of the poems had a point that could be discovered. All together a great book! ( )