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A review by honeyreads1066
The Most Charming Creatures: Poems by Gary Barwin
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
2.0
I feel like this collection is very hit and miss and unfortunately for me, this was a miss.
The collection, I felt was more of an exploration into what poetry could be rather than poems with meaning. Poetry is very personal to the reader and writer except here I didn't feel that way.
When I read at the end that some of the poems were translated pieces of work that were made by putting the poem through google translate over and over and eventually coming back to English. While I admire what Barwin attempted to do I feel like here it just didn't work.
I love the potential of this but I'm not too keen on the execution.
The collection, I felt was more of an exploration into what poetry could be rather than poems with meaning. Poetry is very personal to the reader and writer except here I didn't feel that way.
When I read at the end that some of the poems were translated pieces of work that were made by putting the poem through google translate over and over and eventually coming back to English. While I admire what Barwin attempted to do I feel like here it just didn't work.
I love the potential of this but I'm not too keen on the execution.