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A review by joemkl
The Place of Broken Things by Alessandro Manzetti, Linda D. Addison
2.0
I read this as part of Book Riot's 2020 Read Harder challenge for the category 'Read a horror book published by an indie press.'
I didn't care for this. Some of the poems were excellent, but a lot were utter self-indulgent rubbish. Various ones referenced other poems in the volume, and others outside, and overall it made this book feel like they were trying to gatekeep horror poetry. Coupled with a couple of formatting errors on the Kindle eBook version I read, I just felt like a milked cash cow.
Two stars because the good poems were good, and it'd be unfair to punish them for being situated with less good ones.
I didn't care for this. Some of the poems were excellent, but a lot were utter self-indulgent rubbish. Various ones referenced other poems in the volume, and others outside, and overall it made this book feel like they were trying to gatekeep horror poetry. Coupled with a couple of formatting errors on the Kindle eBook version I read, I just felt like a milked cash cow.
Two stars because the good poems were good, and it'd be unfair to punish them for being situated with less good ones.