A review by stregamorte
Is This Scary?: Poems by Jacob Scheier

2.0

In this collection of poetry following Scheier's experience with depression, suicidal ideation, and being a patient in a mental health treatment center. This poetry collection is difficult for me to rate, because it's such a personal account from the author and I would never want to minimize his experience. That said I couldn't help but feeling quite dumb while reading this. I felt like I needed a syllabus to be able to follow along and pick up on all the nuance more efficiently. I did appreciate at the end there being a short key of references for specific poems because it made me understand the richness better.