sasha_fletcher's review against another edition
5.0
i may change this to five stars. i'm not certain. there were a lot of poems in this book that i thought were amazing. there were a couple that i did not feel this way about, but they were mostly in the beginning. in fact, over the course of writing this, i have decided to change it. it starts slow. by the end it has everything good about jesse ball. do you know what is good about jesse ball? pretty much everything is.
drewsof's review against another edition
4.0
I've been looking for this collection for quite a while and it wonderfully lived up to the hope I had for it. Ball's early poetry here is terrific, setting up some of the same issues he'd come to focus on over the course of his first several novels, and several whole poems leapt out at me as condensed versions of, well, a Jesse Ball story. It's not a perfect collection and on the whole I'm glad he's moved away (at least for now) from the form, but there are some real delights here.
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