A review by leontyna
Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit by Jen Campbell

emotional medium-paced

4.0

It's very hard to rate this collection, it's so personal that rating feels a bit like sacrilege, like rating author's life experience. For sure I would recommend watching the author's video about her condition because it helped me a lot in understanding how her experiences translate into poetry.

I appreciated the reappearing themes like the colours of the house or the poems about what hospital is not, but I can't say I would go back to the collection or that it made me pause which I base my ratings on (for poetry at least)

The poems I liked most were 
  • The Trees Are Part of the Process,
  • First Thing, I Am a Forest
  • Technical rehearsal
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