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A review by kingjason
Snail Vixen and The Crystal Garden by Jasmyn Taylor Givens, Lydia Burris, Casey Renee Kiser
5.0
Casey Renee Kiser is fast becoming one of my favourite poets, her writing is dark, dream-like and full of cheeky humour. She also has a great voice, check her out on Soundcloud. There are some great titles in this collection "Paper Doll Factory" and "I Slit my wrists and he said 'Yo'" are a couple of the best.
To pick a favourite is tough, but I'd have to go with the first one in this collection "Lucky One", it feels like an introduction for the poet, you can almost picture the intro being used just like the intros in wrestling.
Each poem is very strong and stands well on it's own. There is a collection of artwork included and I couldn't see what the point in them was until I looked at Casey's profile pictures on Goodreads, it is just her crazy personality (she could be a real life fairy) coming out on the pages in a different way, both written and visual.
A cool collection, I'll definitely be checking out more of her work.
Blog post (with links) here> https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/snail-vixen-and-the-crystal-garden-by-casey-renee-kiser/
To pick a favourite is tough, but I'd have to go with the first one in this collection "Lucky One", it feels like an introduction for the poet, you can almost picture the intro being used just like the intros in wrestling.
Each poem is very strong and stands well on it's own. There is a collection of artwork included and I couldn't see what the point in them was until I looked at Casey's profile pictures on Goodreads, it is just her crazy personality (she could be a real life fairy) coming out on the pages in a different way, both written and visual.
A cool collection, I'll definitely be checking out more of her work.
Blog post (with links) here> https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/snail-vixen-and-the-crystal-garden-by-casey-renee-kiser/