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A review by horrorbutch
but i work here by Alexandra Weiss
4.0
Disclaimer: I received an e-ARC from netgalley in exchange for a review.
A quite interesting chapbook documenting the author's experience surviving cancer and chronic illness. The visual aspects where really interesting and the author used pictures from their hospital stay as well as various collage methods to create visually intruiging poetry. The poetry itself is always rather short and wasn't that interesting to me from a poetic level, but it expressed the feeling of what was going on very well.
My personal favorites where the Found Poetry parts, which is not poetry the author wrote themselves, but things they found and framed in a poetic way, which is always a very interesting way to play with language.
Unfortunately the book was hard to read at times (I had to have two copies open, one on my phone, one on my computer), because the text was either too small (on my phone) or wouldn't display correctly (on my computer). I would either advise you to try and get a paperback version of this once it comes out, or for the author to maybe provide a PDF version alongside the epub?
All in all I do think this was an interesting and enjoyable read!
A quite interesting chapbook documenting the author's experience surviving cancer and chronic illness. The visual aspects where really interesting and the author used pictures from their hospital stay as well as various collage methods to create visually intruiging poetry. The poetry itself is always rather short and wasn't that interesting to me from a poetic level, but it expressed the feeling of what was going on very well.
My personal favorites where the Found Poetry parts, which is not poetry the author wrote themselves, but things they found and framed in a poetic way, which is always a very interesting way to play with language.
Unfortunately the book was hard to read at times (I had to have two copies open, one on my phone, one on my computer), because the text was either too small (on my phone) or wouldn't display correctly (on my computer). I would either advise you to try and get a paperback version of this once it comes out, or for the author to maybe provide a PDF version alongside the epub?
All in all I do think this was an interesting and enjoyable read!