AD/ gifted from Netgalley. 

i just wanted to clarify that i have nothing against modern minimalist poetry. however, i don’t think this collection is good on a technical or poetic level. there are no language devices, no deeper meaning, everything felt surface level and ‘shown’ not told

this was just the  thought or phrase stated with line breaks, with the occasional photo

i’m all for people using art to work through their trauma, hell, i do the exact same thing, so i don’t mean to disregard or disrespect the author or their motives but i just don’t think this is a good set of poetry. some of these feel like tweets or notes app rants than poems. some were just individual words like
“i don’t know
and that’s okay”
like that was one poem, directly quoted from the collection 

‘this is
a review
of this book’
if that sentence i just wrote about is a poem, this is a poetry collection. if not, i don’t know what to tell you.