Carolyn Gibson

There's not a lot to be said about this poetry collection. As professional as the work appears, the poems read more like first drafts of poems than professionally polished works ready for publication. Most of the poems here needed quite a bit more depth, and wouldn't stand up to poetry published by contemporary journals and/or presses--for very good reason. There's just not enough weight or care to them, and even without the press's emblem, it would be clear the work was self-published.

I wouldn't recommend this book, and I'd only pick up another book by the author if it came from a traditional press and some of the poems had been published in respected journals, as the poems here clearly needed quite a bit more time and work than they received.… (altro)