A review by eliya
Mayakovsky's Revolver by Matthew Dickman

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.0

I enjoyed these. A friend of mine recommended this book when my dad died last year and I finally read it. This definitely echos the festering feelings of grief. A lot of the poems had a consistent fever-dream feel that I enjoyed. The last poem, of course, was gut wrenching. 

I felt a physical aversion to the Bridge poem. Maybe that’s art and it’s supposed to make you uncomfortable. 

Poems that stuck with me were- 4. More than one life and 6- Satellite, and Weird Science.