The Daily Glance (The Kollectiv Series)
Krystal Languell's many lost cause creatures could form a very sad list is a fun book to read because it's like one giant rant through individual prose poems. Languell packs a lot of energy into her mostly four to five line prose poems. She gets in rants about sexism, academia, mortality, the poetry world, prepackaged food, and capitalism.
Will I know what killed me? The fish sticks the hot dogs
Or
Advanced degrees are not inherently evil but people are working hard for change. Every academic is guilty of "my diamond shoes are too tight" logical fallacies.
Are there arguments here? Not really, but the rants are fun, and this is poetry, not a philosophical treatise on the evils of contemporary life of which we are part.
Formally, the prose poems works well here. I've grown less fond of the form lately because so many people use it, and they often use it in ways that seem to lose its power. Languell does not have that problem. These are fast and interesting.
Krystal Languell's many lost cause creatures could form a very sad list is a fun book to read because it's like one giant rant through individual prose poems. Languell packs a lot of energy into her mostly four to five line prose poems. She gets in rants about sexism, academia, mortality, the poetry world, prepackaged food, and capitalism.
Will I know what killed me? The fish sticks the hot dogs
Or
Advanced degrees are not inherently evil but people are working hard for change. Every academic is guilty of "my diamond shoes are too tight" logical fallacies.
Are there arguments here? Not really, but the rants are fun, and this is poetry, not a philosophical treatise on the evils of contemporary life of which we are part.
Formally, the prose poems works well here. I've grown less fond of the form lately because so many people use it, and they often use it in ways that seem to lose its power. Languell does not have that problem. These are fast and interesting.
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