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alishreads's review against another edition
4.0
Book: Poems That Lose
Writer: Akif Kichloo @akifkichloo
Age: +16
Genre: Poetry, Life, Love, Death, Depression, Violence
Review:
"The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love, it is love, it is love."
Akif Kichloo has an exquisite style of writing. His poems are the kind that gets you, it grasps you and let you feel the sentiments you never felt. " I have a body too young
And a mind full of years"
Have you ever read a poetry that understands you? It makes you question thoughts that you kept well hidden in your core. "We are trained to live in the cages of our names."
If you like poetry, it is a book you must read. There are many poems I loved in this books. Even the introduction is quite good, the poet, Akif Kichloo, asks us to understand his metaphors and artless facts. He uses metaphors in many of his poems. The one I liked the most was when he compared love rooted in pity with rain of fishes.
I won't say this book is flawless. Being a teenager, I didn't like the mature poems or violence mentioned. But, as he has mentioned in the introduction that he doesn't want to talk about beauty and richness of our existence, but the dark side of life. Those nightmares and numbing thoughts that we are running from. I really think it's worth a try, who knows you may become his fan....
Writer: Akif Kichloo @akifkichloo
Age: +16
Genre: Poetry, Life, Love, Death, Depression, Violence
Review:
"The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love, it is love, it is love."
Akif Kichloo has an exquisite style of writing. His poems are the kind that gets you, it grasps you and let you feel the sentiments you never felt. " I have a body too young
And a mind full of years"
Have you ever read a poetry that understands you? It makes you question thoughts that you kept well hidden in your core. "We are trained to live in the cages of our names."
If you like poetry, it is a book you must read. There are many poems I loved in this books. Even the introduction is quite good, the poet, Akif Kichloo, asks us to understand his metaphors and artless facts. He uses metaphors in many of his poems. The one I liked the most was when he compared love rooted in pity with rain of fishes.
I won't say this book is flawless. Being a teenager, I didn't like the mature poems or violence mentioned. But, as he has mentioned in the introduction that he doesn't want to talk about beauty and richness of our existence, but the dark side of life. Those nightmares and numbing thoughts that we are running from. I really think it's worth a try, who knows you may become his fan....
artiv's review against another edition
3.0
Blog: https://thelogophile.wixsite.com/blog
* I received an advance copy from the author, in exchange for an honest review *
Poems That Lose explores a number of themes: sexuality, religion, culture, mental illness, childhood, love, family. I know Kichloo writes with such emotion and depth, but I was not expecting the intensity these poems hold. The collection is both gritty and elegant. Kichloo adeptly writes about raw and delicate subjects with both tenderness and intensity.
This is one of those books you keep with you for life. For guidance, for support, for encouragement. One you recommend to others. One you go back to just to read that one poem which resonates with you at that particular juncture in your life, or purely because the words spoke something to you. They will. The words will speak to you -whether or not you've been through the experience.
Due to the subject nature of the poems, they can be very visceral and unapologetic. You may be left feeling emotionally spent, having been taken on an emotional roller-coaster. This is nothing to be sorry for. It is what makes Kichloo different. He isn't afraid to push emotional and poetic boundaries, to write about "taboo" topics in a very real, genuine manner.
The writing is honest. It is rousing. It is beautiful.
* I received an advance copy from the author, in exchange for an honest review *
Poems That Lose explores a number of themes: sexuality, religion, culture, mental illness, childhood, love, family. I know Kichloo writes with such emotion and depth, but I was not expecting the intensity these poems hold. The collection is both gritty and elegant. Kichloo adeptly writes about raw and delicate subjects with both tenderness and intensity.
This is one of those books you keep with you for life. For guidance, for support, for encouragement. One you recommend to others. One you go back to just to read that one poem which resonates with you at that particular juncture in your life, or purely because the words spoke something to you. They will. The words will speak to you -whether or not you've been through the experience.
Due to the subject nature of the poems, they can be very visceral and unapologetic. You may be left feeling emotionally spent, having been taken on an emotional roller-coaster. This is nothing to be sorry for. It is what makes Kichloo different. He isn't afraid to push emotional and poetic boundaries, to write about "taboo" topics in a very real, genuine manner.
The writing is honest. It is rousing. It is beautiful.
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