A review by nicollej
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden

2.0

I wanted to like this book. I love poetry collections and I'm a very emotional reader but this particular collection missed the mark for me. All the repetitions of poets bothered me tremendously. I don't need six Seamus Haney or Elizabeth Bishop poems. Some of the intros by the selectors were interesting but more often than not they felt self-important and unnecessary. I should have started counting the number if times I saw certain writer's names repeated either from contribution or inclusion from another contributor. Granted this book did not claim to be an intro to lesser known poets but it had the capability to be so much more than the cliche it was. It gets two instead of one because a few sections were moving but overall fit his hadn't been a free galley that I felt compelled to finish to review, I would have put it down.

I received this from net galley for an honest review.