A review by schmidtmark56
Be with by Forrest Gander

3.0

The famed St. John of the Cross poem which every description of the book included was a lackluster postmodern mess not unlike taking an old text and running it through google translate. The rest of the book varied widely in its beauty and poetic charm, with occasionally whole poems seeming to exist for one or two good lines, while others, especially the longer ones, shone through reasonably well. Per usual, the author has a background in science and the last section, which had poetry mirroring photography, was muddled by a heavyhanded use of scientific jargon and generally pretentious diction.