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raquelfranco's review against another edition
4.0
I read this and one sitting. I couldn't stop. I think he may have made me fall in love. Tyler has an exceptional way with words.
miranda_is_currently_reading's review against another edition
5.0
Despite the book's title, I honestly have no words to adequately describe the way this collection of haiku affected me. It arrived in the mail at 5:00 today, and I've read it twice since. It's inspired me to be a better writer, a better person. The easiest 5 stars I've ever given.
latifab's review against another edition
3.0
Tyler surely has got a way with words.. they were effortless and sweet, and the book design has made each word more impactful.
lindseymoore14's review against another edition
5.0
I'm normally not a poetry person, and I'm especially not a love poetry person. However, after reading Chasers of the Light, I knew this was something I wanted to read. I'm not really sure how to put my feelings about this book into words, or even why I loved it so much. All I can really say is it was beautiful. Maybe even one of my favorite books I've read this year.
karissakate's review against another edition
5.0
I just love love love Tyler Knott Gregson. He has an amazing way of vocalizing the beauty found in the common, and the amazing in the seemingly mundane. His words feel like a breath of fresh air and a hug to the soul.
cacia's review against another edition
2.0
Repetitious, without intrinsic value.
The spareness of the haiku form gives the reader ample room to read himself into the words, but the poems have no life or feeling of their own. They all felt flat to me, nothing but words on a page. They told no story, evoked no sense of place or person or emotion. If you do not read yourself into the poems, they are uncomfortably voyeuristic: they are personal exercises in a technical form and in an expression of feelings, private snapshots of someone else's relationship. Yet even as snapshots, they fail — blurry images, macro shots, without distinct form or portrayal, precious to the one who took them, meaningless and alien to the outsider.
Did I dislike the book? No, not really. I simply did not care, not even enough to feel antipathy.
Yet another of my Tumblr poetry finds bites the dust.
The spareness of the haiku form gives the reader ample room to read himself into the words, but the poems have no life or feeling of their own. They all felt flat to me, nothing but words on a page. They told no story, evoked no sense of place or person or emotion. If you do not read yourself into the poems, they are uncomfortably voyeuristic: they are personal exercises in a technical form and in an expression of feelings, private snapshots of someone else's relationship. Yet even as snapshots, they fail — blurry images, macro shots, without distinct form or portrayal, precious to the one who took them, meaningless and alien to the outsider.
Did I dislike the book? No, not really. I simply did not care, not even enough to feel antipathy.
Yet another of my Tumblr poetry finds bites the dust.
dawnoftheread's review against another edition
5.0
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lllkilli's review against another edition
4.0
So rare that I find a collection of poetry that I like more than a few out of the whole. I loved/related to about half of them, and enjoyed most of the remaining.
Short haikus on love, lust, and longing written in a somewhat scrawled handwriting font and a type writer font over photo backdrops of everyday objects through a vintage filter. Loved the aesthetic. So many poems to choose from, but one of my favourites:
"Sometimes I want less,
less clothing and less waiting,
less words and less space."
Short haikus on love, lust, and longing written in a somewhat scrawled handwriting font and a type writer font over photo backdrops of everyday objects through a vintage filter. Loved the aesthetic. So many poems to choose from, but one of my favourites:
"Sometimes I want less,
less clothing and less waiting,
less words and less space."