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grayjay's review against another edition
5.0
In the first few pages I could tell that I was going to love Hall's collection of essay-poems. I loved his cheeky prose-poem style, and his ability to make fun of things while doing them. Like his poem "Bad Sequence" in which he criticizes list and sequence poems in the form of a list poem. I also loved "Becoming a Poet", in which he shares loving and irreverent stories about his claimed poetic family, including an episode where he decides to meet Margaret Lawrence and knocks on her door unannounced.
lsparrow's review against another edition
1.0
very canadian poems - perhaps more academic and with way to many literary references that I was not familiar with the details.
mhlynch's review against another edition
5.0
Phil Hall creates poetic analysis through a terse autobiographical package that you open like a jack-in-a-box. His sharp insights into the impediments of the culture of academia, the creative writing school and the illogic of false poetics are a motley jester. You should have known better. Don't spoil yourself for love with self-love. Phil Hall is good.
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