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whoz_ophelia's review
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
2.0
I've wanted to read a collection by Jameson Fitzpatrick since my first poetry mentor showed me his poem, "Tenderness" in 2014... how oxymoronic, how raw, how beautiful in its searing honesty. To this day, it remains one of my favorite poems. It opened a whole new world of what poetry could be for me at the age of fifteen.
When I came across one of his collections, I was excited to dive further into psyche of this poet, but I was ultimately disappointed. "Mr. &" lacks all the intensity of emotion and honesty I loved about "Tenderness." There were lines within poems I enjoyed, "long tears fell/ on the children's chairs/ a flood/ of mathematics." The line is poignant, playful, and surprising. But the collection for the most part is academic and esoteric. The poems don't really let the reader in.
I will try another collection by Fitzpatrick. Maybe this one just wasn't for me.
When I came across one of his collections, I was excited to dive further into psyche of this poet, but I was ultimately disappointed. "Mr. &" lacks all the intensity of emotion and honesty I loved about "Tenderness." There were lines within poems I enjoyed, "long tears fell/ on the children's chairs/ a flood/ of mathematics." The line is poignant, playful, and surprising. But the collection for the most part is academic and esoteric. The poems don't really let the reader in.
I will try another collection by Fitzpatrick. Maybe this one just wasn't for me.
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