hsienhsien27's review
4.0
I'm not a person who reads poetry very often, not because I dislike it or anything, I just don't know many poets. So while I was looking at all the small presses and all of their amazing looking poetry chapbooks, I suddenly got an email from this dude. I read and I liked it. Poetry is not something that is easy to talk about, except when you're in English class where the professor makes you write essays about poems that you can only understand half of the stanzas or have somewhat of an idea what it means. So whenever I write about poetry, these posts are really short and consist of mostly the dumb blogger writing about her previous experiences of certain literature.
So anyway, back to the book. What I really liked about these poems is that they seem to have an influence of the old, classical poetry, but at the same time, it feels like the modern poetry that people write at their laptops whenever they have the thoughts don't seem to go away. It reminded me of Emily Dickinson, a poet who I seem to really like but don't have any of her books in physical form. It also reminds me of all those modern poets like the small press ones. Although I think Aldrich press might be one of those small presses.
A lot of these poems either focus on romance or everyday life, just living. Some are directed to friends or family members. That's the thing about writing, poetry or short stories, it's a way of understanding others or expressing something you can't really say through the words of mouth or through action. So this book seems like a bunch of letters written for people in poetic format. Even though I didn't really understand a select few, it doesn't really matter because the feeling is what really matters. That's just my feeling about poetry. These are letters are about love and for love. Regardless if it's romantic or friendship, because love comes in all forms. They are love letters to life and in all it's good and bad.
Rating: 4/5
http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2014/03/love-poems-by-charles-bane-jr.html
So anyway, back to the book. What I really liked about these poems is that they seem to have an influence of the old, classical poetry, but at the same time, it feels like the modern poetry that people write at their laptops whenever they have the thoughts don't seem to go away. It reminded me of Emily Dickinson, a poet who I seem to really like but don't have any of her books in physical form. It also reminds me of all those modern poets like the small press ones. Although I think Aldrich press might be one of those small presses.
A lot of these poems either focus on romance or everyday life, just living. Some are directed to friends or family members. That's the thing about writing, poetry or short stories, it's a way of understanding others or expressing something you can't really say through the words of mouth or through action. So this book seems like a bunch of letters written for people in poetic format. Even though I didn't really understand a select few, it doesn't really matter because the feeling is what really matters. That's just my feeling about poetry. These are letters are about love and for love. Regardless if it's romantic or friendship, because love comes in all forms. They are love letters to life and in all it's good and bad.
Rating: 4/5
http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2014/03/love-poems-by-charles-bane-jr.html
writerrhiannon's review
4.0
Charles Bane's "Love Poems" is a wonderfully accessible collection. Spanning time, place, and types of love, Bane presents an entire world in each compact composition. Ranging from romantic love in rainy Paris, familial love for a child, and forgiving love for a murderer, these poems portray the simplicity of love in a myriad of complex states. This slim volume offers readers the wonderful experience of 27 poems that initially appear simple and small but in truth are snippets of one of humanity's most powerful forces...love.
Read my full review here: http://www.ivoryowlreviews.blogspot.com/2014/05/love-poems.html
Read my full review here: http://www.ivoryowlreviews.blogspot.com/2014/05/love-poems.html
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