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thatkorigirl's review against another edition
1.0
I like art, and even some modern art, but this concept is not worth a book. Or maybe it is, but not this book.
sloatsj's review against another edition
5.0
I read this a few years back but picked up my own copy on a recent visit to the states because I still think about it. I see in the GoodReads blurb it's not called poetry at all, yet that's what the publisher calls it and what other and I would call it, though specifically I'd call it 'conceptual poetry.'
To create these found poems, Erica Baum dog ears the pages of books to find out what strange sequence of text results. I like the dada of this, although I understand the book consists only of the dog ears that 'worked,' while the bulk of Baum's effort was tossed out. But that's how it is with poetry.
I particularly like the materiality of the poems, the colors and textures, each poem being an image as well as a poem. I like the fonts and occasional italic, and especially the yellow or brown tinge of the paper.
The text itself is enigmatic in a way that I like. I read the poems top left to bottom right but one could also read the left side before jumping to the right fold. In one poem, I read
your sister is not / to wear stockings
gravely and the / the earth was
stairs...
None of these poems works seamlessly and trying to make sense of them is much of the pleasure.
You can see some of these here: https://jacket2.org/galleries/photographs-dog-ear
To create these found poems, Erica Baum dog ears the pages of books to find out what strange sequence of text results. I like the dada of this, although I understand the book consists only of the dog ears that 'worked,' while the bulk of Baum's effort was tossed out. But that's how it is with poetry.
I particularly like the materiality of the poems, the colors and textures, each poem being an image as well as a poem. I like the fonts and occasional italic, and especially the yellow or brown tinge of the paper.
The text itself is enigmatic in a way that I like. I read the poems top left to bottom right but one could also read the left side before jumping to the right fold. In one poem, I read
your sister is not / to wear stockings
gravely and the / the earth was
stairs...
None of these poems works seamlessly and trying to make sense of them is much of the pleasure.
You can see some of these here: https://jacket2.org/galleries/photographs-dog-ear
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