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Poetry Review: Assembly Required by Hooves

This book stood out for how different the layout was. I viewed some of its formatting online from previews, and I actually had really high hopes for this book. Instead of naming poems, he sets a date to them, like someone troubleshooting a complicated machine and you are taking notes of the trouble shooting process. It’s aesthetic and format matched…

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Kasimir Drawing Pencils K-2014 – Pencil Review

The Kasimir set have an interesting place in my collection. While many pencil sets have very soft graphite pencils have a more grainy feel, Kasimir are distinctly more precise and create much cleaner lines. That said, they emulate the style of inking much more. They are distinctly for penciling- a process comic arts use where they pencil out what they…

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Poetry Review: Mongrel Tongue by Megin Jimenez

Mongrel Tongue has the presentation and format of a professional author- reminding me of when I would first read poetry books outside of what I knew I already liked. The sections of the book are clearly marked and there is a flow to the progression that reminds me of old poetry formats, where a book could be divided into 12…

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Pen Review – Picasso 903 Pen

(Jesse Dictor is Toreador Magazine’s Editor. You can find more from online at his photography website.) While Picasso and Co have a very small web appearance outside of Amazon, they are a company that seems like they are most popular in Japan. I’ve worked with other Picasso and Co pens and found this one to be the same- a pressure…

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Poetry Book Review: So She Speaks

So She Speaks by Madison Brandt is a short read that is more like a self help book for the author than it is as a poetry book. The author also manages a podcast where she has local people she knows over to talk about different subjects. I had a paramour look at the book and she took some time…

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Poetry Book Review: Ravished

Ravished by Lydia Hack starts by breaking the mold of the one name dedications by calling them “inspirations”. Her style is full of these types of cute quirks where she is engaged with the convention but still tailored as her own. Interestingly enough to me, she does a lot of the same “right side of the book only” poetry as…

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Poetry Book Review: Michael Faudet’s Cult of Two

Let’s recall the last book, the 4rth in his series Winters of Summer. In it Michael has a character get an advanced copy of Cult of Two who makes some valid critiques of poetry (particularly Michael Faudet’s style of poetry) and his character in the book hand waves it away as “that’s a bit harsh, some of its pretty damn…

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