5/24/2023 0 Comments Reckless Traveler by Walter Rhein![]() ![]() Mental health terrifies everyone simply because nobody, not even the experts, seems to know how it works. The short version is that he was “eritably knocked off his horse by two out-of-control, gaslighting shrinks at the tender age of 23.” More than a decade later, the unfortunate ruling was overturned. In the introduction, Lewy gives some tantalizing details about his history of mental illness. ![]() There is a legitimate chaos in this book that is quite compelling, and the poems are all included as text and as a component of colorful collages like you’d see on a lamp post in a foreign country. Lewy is a book of poetry that is much closer to Kurt Cobain than William Wordsworth, and I don’t mean that as an insult. ![]() ‘Gaslit By A Madman: Illuminated Poems’ by Max J. Poems work a lot better when you read them out loud, and sometimes you can change a room by shouting words into it. If you charge right through, the effect is akin to running a marathon at the Louvre. A poem forces you to slow down and let the gears of your mind start spinning. Poetry works like a packet of seasoning in the middle of a plate of good but otherwise homogeneous food. I appreciate the occasionally well-crafted song lyric, and enjoy the effect when somebody like Tolkien throws a poem into his prose. I have a degree in English, so I’m not unfamiliar with poems, but here in the wild I don’t stumble across them with great frequency. Every now and then I pick up a book of poetry. ![]()
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