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A review by yapxinyi
parsetreeforestfire by Hamid Roslan
3.0
I borrowed the ebook after a friend highly recommended this to me, and I think the ebook doesn't have the same experience as the physical book because the layout does get a little messed up, unfortunately!
I did want to like the book, but I think such an experimentation with language (English, Singlish, dialect, Malay, everything local) makes for an interesting, but not immersive, read for me. That being said, I can acknowledge that there are some really smart turn of phrases. For me, the "forest" segment was perhaps the most cheeky(?) one, for lack of a better word, where the poet let his own voice through.
Perhaps I'm still more of a traditional kind of lyric poet ahahahaha.
I did want to like the book, but I think such an experimentation with language (English, Singlish, dialect, Malay, everything local) makes for an interesting, but not immersive, read for me. That being said, I can acknowledge that there are some really smart turn of phrases. For me, the "forest" segment was perhaps the most cheeky(?) one, for lack of a better word, where the poet let his own voice through.
Perhaps I'm still more of a traditional kind of lyric poet ahahahaha.