torit's review
5.0
This book is the reason I started writing poetry seriously. It’s still the most creative book of poetry I’ve read and I’m amazed each time I come back to it.
sasha_fletcher's review
4.0
listen. at first i wasn't certain. then i was. now i am. although i'm not certain how much i like all of the poems, as a book of poetry, i think it's fucking awesome.
valerieloveland's review
4.0
I really like how this book uses the same subjects, and images throughout the book, and it feels like they are talking about the same specific hummingbirds or jaguars that keep appearing. It reminds me of when an artist will use the same image in different settings and combinations. The whole book works together.
It has a similar, surreal and whimsical style to The Man Suit, but there is less variety in Scary, No Scary. The book is still good, but it is hard to compete with The Man Suit, which is one of my favorites.
The section of the book called The Histories has linked poems where objects appear and then aren't really there. The objects are a table chair, chandelier, sheet, floor and ceiling. In each poem, some of the objects are there and others are there, they cycle so every object has a chance to be there and not be there. Although this section isn't my favorite, it is an interesting set of poems.
I was disappointed with the titles, most of them were just a repeat of the first stanza of the poem.
Schomburg has an index of subjects at the end of the book, just like in The Man Suit, and it is just as hilarious.
My favorite poems in this book:
a href="http://www.typomag.com/issue08/schomburg.html">Scary, No Scary
The Sawing In Half
The Black Hole (middle poem on the page)
It has a similar, surreal and whimsical style to The Man Suit, but there is less variety in Scary, No Scary. The book is still good, but it is hard to compete with The Man Suit, which is one of my favorites.
The section of the book called The Histories has linked poems where objects appear and then aren't really there. The objects are a table chair, chandelier, sheet, floor and ceiling. In each poem, some of the objects are there and others are there, they cycle so every object has a chance to be there and not be there. Although this section isn't my favorite, it is an interesting set of poems.
I was disappointed with the titles, most of them were just a repeat of the first stanza of the poem.
Schomburg has an index of subjects at the end of the book, just like in The Man Suit, and it is just as hilarious.
My favorite poems in this book:
a href="http://www.typomag.com/issue08/schomburg.html">Scary, No Scary
The Sawing In Half
The Black Hole (middle poem on the page)
stephaniemwytovich's review
5.0
Schomburg’s SCARY, NO SCARY is a brilliant collection of fantastical and surrealist poetry that creates as much as it destroys. His pieces are bizarre recollections, illusionist daydreams, and fierce realizations where his characters live, die, are reborn, and are murdered. Pieces like “I Found a Beating Heart Half-Buried in the Woods,” “Dead Hummingbird Problem,” and “The Darkness and the Light” were personal favorites of mine as they touched on the gray area between life and death, between dream and reality. His poetry has a visual bite to it, and it reminds me of Renee Magritte’s surrealist series, The Treachery of Images. Don’t trust what you read, but know that everything you read here is true.
I can’t recommend this enough.
I can’t recommend this enough.
indiereads's review
3.0
I really liked it but feel it interconnects ij ways my little brain cant understand right now. However looking at the index in the back and being able to underatand certain themes made me understand a little more but I didnt do it for all the poems so I know there are a lot of things I missed out on. Still, a very interesting read.
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