FINAL POEM REVIEWS Cassandra's reviews Camden’s “He Loved Like His Christ” On its own, this piece is pretty heavy. Of course, it ends in the death of our main character, and even before we get to that most depressing part, everything that comes before it is…downpulling (the opposite of uplifting; I don’t want to call any poem “depressing” too many times or David will disagree with me!). But that’s clearly the point, without reading an explanatory comment from you; you as the writer are trying to make us readers look at the life of this man, just recognize it. I only have one issue, which comes only after reading your comment about it: “I also wanted to convey the theme of saintly brokenness - that the people that often touch the most lives and are the most pure are the most broken,” you say. But that’s the only part we don’t get to see from this piece—the lives this priest supposedly touched or his “purity.” You only mention how he gave love to “unworthy people,” and after sayi...
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POEM REVIEWS THREE Please try to send me only the new critiques I have not posted. Most of the time you are but once in a while I get a huge set with new ones tacked on and I have to go looking around and see what to post then. Just FYI. Thank you some of you for getting me critiques, AND some of you for getting me reader responses (it's why we had Wednesday off!). Still a day left, of course, so no worries (for reader responses). By the way, these post are not very organized. Look on earlier posts for critiques from others if they are not here. Some of you do them REALLY early. I'm just rather randomly posting on new pages so no one page gets too full. Eva's latest poem reviews (posted Nov. 1, 2020) Mariah's “Numena” Mariah, I love this poem and can tell that it pulls from the bizarre style of Kocot a little. It is more grounded and less out there than Kocot but still clearly influenced by her style. I like the beastly, fairytale-like aspects to this poem; and the us...