I loved this book. I just wish my friend was here to read the chapbook this is. I loved the pictures and what was said. My friend would love this book. Great book, great pictures. Loved it!!

I received a free copy of the book and is voluntarily writing a review

A quite interesting chapbook documenting the author's experience surviving cancer and chronic illness. The visual aspects where really interesting and the author used pictures from their hospital stay as well as various collage methods to create visually intruiging poetry. The poetry itself is always rather short and wasn't that interesting to me from a poetic level, but it expressed the feeling of what was going on very well.
My personal favorites where the Found Poetry parts, which is not poetry the author wrote themselves, but things they found and framed in a poetic way, which is always a very interesting way to play with language.
Unfortunately the book was hard to read at times (I had to have two copies open, one on my phone, one on my computer), because the text was either too small (on my phone) or wouldn't display correctly (on my computer). I would either advise you to try and get a paperback version of this once it comes out, or for the author to maybe provide a PDF version alongside the epub?
All in all I do think this was an interesting and enjoyable read!

I couldn't finish. I was reading in my tablet it was so hard I had to squint my eyes to make out some of the words. I didn't feel anything, and the style wasn't for me either. I don't deny it will be good for some, I'm for sure not the kind of reader for this.

"...but i work here" is a collection of reflections on, as the author describes, "being sick" with a life of chronic illness. The vehicle for these is in the form of text over photohraphs, providing a visual representation of the experences to pair with the words written by Weiss to share what a chronically ill life is like. This is a creative outlet that I have enjoyed in the past, such as Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer; that being said, the format is not particularly kindle friendly even though that version is available. While the words are much more easily discernable in full color photos, there was still some times that I struggled to read the text against the background. While a strong concept and fascinating delivery, it ultimately fell flat for me.

…but i work here by Alexandra Weiss is an amazing short book of mixed media poems. It doesn’t function like normal poetry, the photos and edits included are very much a huge part of the poem. The style is distinct and i adored every single minute of it. Unique and amazing.

As poetry not very good. As maybe art could be visually interesting. I can see this being in a gallery somewhere.

I feel so bad because the concept is really good, and this person literally overcame cancer. But the brevity of this really doesn’t help you become very invested in this.

Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read and review this!

"...but i work here" is a collection of personal reflections on chronic illness. It uses both photographic imagery of the spaces and the physical artifacts that are collected through the author's journey. Its format is one that I've not encountered before.

There are some portions where the white text is blurry or unreadable against the background images. I did read this book as an ARC though, so there might be changes for the final publication that improves the readability of the content.

Thank you to Querencia Press and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this chapbook as an ARC.

...but i work here is a short collection of visual poetry, photography, and collage exploring living in a state of chronic illness. As a chronically ill person I found a lot of the imagery, especially medical imagery, immediately recognizable. I was unsurprised to learn through collage that I share a diagnosis with the author. When this type recognition happens in art I always feel an overwhelming sense of being seen and being in community. This can be rare as it always feels people do not understand what it is like to live constantly in the present tense of illness.

I love that books can bridge this gap for readers and I'm grateful to Alexandra Weiss for sharing experiences.

I got this as an arc on Netgalley and it will come out in January. Look the concept of this chronic illness scrap book poetry book is really awesome but it has to go back to the editors. Some of the work is currently inaccessible and unreadable. I loved what I did read though.

la verdad que la edicion del libro es bastante escueta. En algunas imagenes no se le leía el poema. Mas alla de eso, estuvo bastante bien para las pocas páginas que tiene.

a powerful chapbook about chronic illness/being young and sick. I loved the use of imagery and found poems.