Instead, do yourself a favour and read the above E. I'm not even sure if I want to try reading the following poetry collections of Lang Leav. I really enjoy reading love poems and I can't describe my disappointment enough. I think that it would make the collection much much better.Īll in all, Love & Misadventure was a big miss for me. Some had some whimsical elements and I wish there was more of that. Having said that, I have to be fair and admit that the prose poetry included was slightly better and I even enjoyed those pieces. I could just writeĪnd it could sum up perfectly the spirit of this collection. Yes, I understood the basic feeling that each poem tried to express, but it just remained on the surface. I wondered if this was somehow my fault that I was failing to connect with the poems, but I couldn't find a reason to like them. I was reading page after page in hopes that they would improve somehow, but it never happened. A perfect example is the poem Xs and Os:Īnd that's it. The vast majority of the poems reminded me of the poems we used to write as elementary school children, and this is not an exaggeration. Nevertheless, this doesn't improve their quality. I mean that as a whole, I could force myself to extract a narrative, a story that they tried to convey. There is no way that these poems could stand on their own. I don't want to sound harsh, but I had to stop reading and ask myself "Why am I reading this?" several times. When it comes to the poems (the main problem of the book) I am at a complete loss. Right now, the illustrations are pretty, but the expression is completely blank. However, it got me thinking how can you add illustrations to a collection of poetry to create an impact on the reader? I think that I would prefer to have smaller ones that accompany certain poems, and ones where the girl depicted showed more emotion. The illustrations had a nice art style, even though they didn't add anything to the book as a whole. At the beginning of each part, we also have an illustration created by the author. Love & Misadventure is divided into three parts - 1. Upon re-reading some of the poetry though, I realised that my impression remained the same. So, I tried to figure out if my disappointment in this collection of poetry originated from the fact that I had read this book before. You see, the previous book I read was A Lover's Discourse, which I found to be an excellent exploration of the nuances of love. But before digging into that, I have to let you know that I waited for a while before writing this review. Unfortunately for me, I was quickly disappointed. This book kept popping up to me and I decided to read it (since I was in that set of mind). In this review, we are going to talk about the development and failure of a love affair, as is told through the poems of Love & Misadventure, by Lang Leav. However, this is not a review of Cumming's work. A very nice example is the above poem - by E. Poems that can put to word what you are feeling and express your inner struggle better that you could ever do with your own words. There is a time when your heart just needs some love poetry to soothe itself and let the feelings flow.
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