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kingjason's review
4.0
A nice little chapbook of poems here by Mendes Biondo, a poet that is new to me and it doesn't disappoint. Quite quickly into the book you get a feeling of being sat with a beer watching a river slowly passing you by, the heat is making you sweat and blues is playing in the background. You seem to be on the edge of reality struggling to tell whether the people you see are real or not, on the pages Bettie Paige and Wild Bill Hickock seem so real.
The poems seem ideal reading for the big lockdown of 2020, when there ain't much to do then a game of cards with murderers seems the perfect way to pass the time. My favourite in the collection was "Socks and Other Plagues" an excellent argument for not pairing up your socks. This is a fine collection that gets the reader's imagination working.
Blog review: https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/river-house-blues-by-mendes-biondo/
The poems seem ideal reading for the big lockdown of 2020, when there ain't much to do then a game of cards with murderers seems the perfect way to pass the time. My favourite in the collection was "Socks and Other Plagues" an excellent argument for not pairing up your socks. This is a fine collection that gets the reader's imagination working.
Blog review: https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/river-house-blues-by-mendes-biondo/
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