This was really pretty poetry, but I didn't really understand any of the meeaning behind it. The cover and illustrations are gorgeous, but the writing felt fairly minimal

Simply put, a great collection of poetry for readers of any genre. It has something for everyone to enjoy.

Vertigo of love and letting go analogue de leon Chris purifoy.
In this modern epic chris purifoy weaves together a collection of puers into one rich story about star-crossed love and the turbulence of letting go.
A good read. Different. 4*.

When I opened this book, I expected to find a collection of poetry, but instead, I found a story about a love so dizzying that it stays with you forever, one way or another. This is the type of poetry that you either love or hate. De Leon relies heavily on nature metaphors to describe his feelings toward this lover as he tells the story, but that is something I love about poetry. It just feels magical to me. In fact, the metaphor about candles and light that the author explains in the foreword is one I've never come across and sets the tone for the entire book. This story of "love and letting go" is something that we can all relate to on some level because love, whether that love is romantic or otherwise, is just such a human experience.

I was intrigued by the description of this work when I first discovered it, but I also was not quite sure what to expect from it going in. The whole concept of a modern epic poem sounded very unique, and I was eager to see what a present day take on this classic form of literature would be like. I assumed I might end up being sort of skeptical and critical given not only my general pickiness when it comes to poetry, but also because of the unconventional nature of this particular work. However, I ended up enjoying every aspect of this far more than I could have anticipated—it definitely exceeded my expectations.

As this is an epic poem, it is all one connected story rather than a collection of individual poems. Because of this style, it is broken up into small, simple sections of text, punctuated by beautiful and surreal illustrations that work to enhance the overall atmosphere the poem gives off. Everything comes together to radiate the enormity of the world of human emotion, as well as the vast expanse of universe itself compared to us as humans. Each little piece is quite straightforward, and they slowly build on each other to create the journey of the narrator as he acknowledges the pain of loss and the great power of love. As a whole, there is so much depth and positivity to be found within the full message that this work conveys. Personally, the strength in the text and the accompanying imagery really made quite an impact on me.

One other extremely interesting and unique aspect of this poem is the online media that can be viewed in connection with it. The book provides links to a website that takes you on a virtual tour through the same emotions and message that the actual text does. With animations in the style of the illustrations in the poem and atmospheric music to listen to as you read, this becomes a very distinctive reading experience. Overall, this is the type of modern poetry that I have come to love—poetry that uses fairly simple and easily accessible language to express much deeper emotions and cause significant personal introspection. Everyone will have a truly personal journey with this poem.

Beautifully written book. I loved the aspects this book went into. I extremely enjoyed it and I would believe anyone who read the premise of the book will also like this book too.

I requested this because of the cover. Let's be real about this for a second. I just love beautiful covers that much. I mean, look at it!!!!

The poetry itself was pretty good. I didn't love it but I liked it enough to keep going and finishing it. In the beginning I found so many parts that I just had to highlight and I thought this was going to be my new favorite things. It didn't.

The farther I went into the book, I didn't feel anything anymore. The words were beautiful but they just didn't speak to me and didn't move me in a way that I wanted them to. So this is once again a 'It's not you, it's me' book, cause it's beautiful (the words and the pictures!!!), it just didn't work for me, but I totally see how this would work for other people.

This book was definitely a well crafted piece of literature. With every word you read, you can feel the effort the writer put into making it, and that personal feeling that wafted from this book was what endeared Vertigo to me.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Poetry has slowly become one of the many things I enjoy reading. I was thrilled to read this book! There was even a little extra excitement because there were illustrations to go along with it, but my excitement quickly faded.

I was devasted when I wasn't impressed with the poems. To me, they didn't stir up any emotion. I didn't feel the pain of the struggles the man was going through. I didn't feel his loss.

Vertigo fell flat for me.

Vertigo reads like the emotions stitched into my heart, the ones almost impossible to express, to utter aloud. It follows the pattern of an epic poem, a story broken and jilted, at odds with itself and I love it for the humanity inside it. It talks about love, loss, searching, but not always finding, closure. It's a beautiful work of art that reveals the worst - and best - of our intentions as human beings.

I've never read anything from this poet before. I'm glad I have.

"I climbed to the edge of terror to free myself."

This is more like a short story that is broken down into stanzas to resemble poetry with pictures interspersed. Although there are a few powerful lines, written it seems sparse and choppy; however, I could see this making a great short film where they use cutout animation to help tell the story. In that media I feel it would be more emotive.

This book talks about loving someone, finding yourself, and God. I feel really connected about the lostness, in finding oneself.

Vertigo was a magical read for me, as I read along the lines I can see it clearly through my imagination, I can feel the emotions deep in my bones. It was a fascinating journey reading, looking at the website and listening to the playlist while reading.

Highly recommended!

I received an ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this epic poem and would definitely recommend it to people that are not familiar with poetry and want to delve into it. This book was more than just a simple read. There is a corresponding website and a playlist created that goes along with reading this book, which adds so much to your reading experience, while the illustrations within the book manage to build up the world, thus creating an almost palpable atmospheric setting.

Through this poem we experience the journey of a man that falls in love and struggles not only with his loved one but also with himself. Love, loss and God are the three main themes woven with his existence, and the narration allowed me to feel his thoughts and emotions while reading them. This poem served like a journal to his experience, and it managed to take me along for the ride. While reading this, I saw love depicted as something greater that the narrator, as if he himself becomes a channel to this vast power that love has, a power that calls to him, and a force that he utilizes so as to get close to his object of affection, searching for relief. The parallel between the human existence and the cosmic universe is extraordinary to me, simply because I am interested in everything that has to do with space. There are also annotations at the end of the book, which helped me make sense of what some words symbolized or where the poet derived his inspiration from.

I would definitely recommend this book and see myself rereading it.

Nice book, but nothing out of the ordinary. Definitely not horrendous, although I do not think I would read it again.