A review by samsam123
The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed

2.0

The poems in this collection operate in a visceral level. The body is at the Center here, and the author evokes such cutting imagery! There are lines in some of these poems that will gut you. However, for me, I didn’t get much of these poems. I like his descriptions of place, but the poems were interrupted by me having to look up several words. The poems also began to feel like they were just too much of the same over and over again, for me. Perhaps I just did not understand this text. This was not the collection for me.