At a much younger point in my life, I was introduced to poetry. Robert Frost was the author that I remember most.
So when I saw this book, the title intrigued me, That it was poetry made me think it was time to revisit a writing form I have not thought of in years..
I find this book to be just okay for someone like me. I am sure that in the world of poetry, the poems are very good, just not the kind of poetry I remember. Or find interesting.

I immediately prickled against this book in the introduction-- it was very pretentious as it guaranteed the poems in the collection would inspire me to be my best self. In spite of the occasional beautiful line or image, I couldn't get into the poetry that followed as so much of it lacked any subtlety and, whenever it tried to do something poetic or clever, it then had a footnote explaining what had been done. If the poetry can't work without being explained in a footnote, it doesn't work at all.

Honestly I didn’t enjoy this collection as much as I was hoping to. The writing was very bland and confusing and I didn’t like how there was a dedication or footnote at the end of almost every poem. Those things should have had their own section in the collection so that it wouldn’t take away from the writing. Overall I may have enjoyed 3 poems out of the entire novel.

“Expand your knowledge base
Flip through
Read it
Get soaked in
Be booktiful”

I really enjoyed this collection of poetry. I felt there was poems here and there that didn’t go with the overall theme of the rest of the poems, but overall was a great poetic read.