A review by thepoemreeder
The Disappearance of Seth by Kazim Ali

3.0

This book contains absolutely breathtaking lines, pure beauty in single compact sentences. My problem was that I had a hard time wading through the collection of sentence images, piled one atop the other, to follow a plot. Time seemed to be fluid, with events being referred to or described in any order but chronological. I do think this was purposeful and reflective of ideas presented in the text, but it still made it hard to become involved in the story or characters when everything seemed to be more random lines from poems thrown together than a cohesive plot.