A review by manoncremers
Date & Time by Phil Kaye

2.0

Seeing the poem Camaro performed by him in a Youtube video is what made me buy Date & Time. Obviously they wouldn't promote the best poem out of the entire book, right? There must be something else of equal perfection, right? And yes, there are some. Some enough to make me rate it three stars. However, I can't help having expected more. While poems like My Grandmother's Ballroom, and Camaro really spoke to me, others like Internet speaks back to the author, 1998, Yellow Bouquet or The New Multihyphenate just absolutely did not. Each of them examples of a great idea that could have been worked out better. Writing out poems meant for spoken word means that they should always flow easily, whether they are read or heard. Writing poems / in this / form / merely for / the aesthetic of it / does not / do them justice. Sorry, Phil.