A review by jodygerbig
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter

3.0

While the writing is enjoyable and the premise good, I often felt I was being lectured to about the recession and its effects on the middle class, as Walter has a tendency to ramble a little too long about the current state of affairs. I also felt that the protagonist was too naive and found his repeated stumblings into sales traps frustrating, falling to pieces every time pressure landed in front of him. I could have done without the longer poems, but I enjoyed the haikus and limericks.