Masquerades-and-puppeteers
Olamide J Santos
olamide j. santos kindle ebook masquerades and puppeteers
Poems: some personal, some social commentary.
three stars
As always, do not let my star count override your judgement of content. More on the stars, counting, and my rating challenges later. A review is one person’s reaction to a work, subject to bias and cultural interpretation. This collection of thirty-four poems opens with one including non-English words and still it somehow works.
For a strange metaphor, turn to Evelyn (Ode to My Guitar.)
For a not-love poem nicely done, turn to Hi, which is an invitation for ‘the one’ to announce herself.
For a scary piece on ‘retribution’ turn to Nemesis.
The prose poem How to Be a Lagosian plays with the reader. Turn to this piece for a good chuckle.
If you’re scrolling for the tiny carps, there might be a typo. Not unusual. Back to the good stuff.
My First Christmas is an admittedly made-up ‘memory,’ in which we find this: “But what confused me most was the red socks that hung on the walls /And the trees within the house /A botanical flaw /But I stayed awake to see the rumoured Santa clause climb down a chimney we never had.”
Santos can do social commentary, as in The World Is Not Itself, which begins by awakening the reader with this: “Historians have started prophesying /And prophets now quote history /The world is not itself anymore /Earth must now spin on Mercury’s axis /Or how well do we explain this heat?” and it goes on much farther than global warming.
Given all that, how do I come up with three stars? My personal guidelines, when doing an ‘official’ KBR review, are as follows: five stars means, roughly equal to best in genre. Rarely given. Four stars means, extremely good. Three stars means, definitely recommendable. I am a tough reviewer. I try hard to be consistent. Santos is a promising new poet, and is clearly recommended here. Your personal rating may be higher.
Kindle Book Review Team member.
(Note: this reviewer received a free copy of this book for an independent review. He is not associated with the author or Amazon.)
what follows is not part of the review but is provided for your use, or not, as you choose.
carps:
echoes:
none detected
typos:
basket of lies (lilies??) (not sure about this one)
heavens fringe (heaven’s ??)
other notes:
Not sure what a six inch complex is. To do with high heels? I’ll give you this one, it may be culturally more obvious to your readers than to me.
olamide j. santos goodreads masquerades and puppeteers
Olamide J Santos
olamide j. santos kindle ebook masquerades and puppeteers
Poems: some personal, some social commentary.
three stars
As always, do not let my star count override your judgement of content. More on the stars, counting, and my rating challenges later. A review is one person’s reaction to a work, subject to bias and cultural interpretation. This collection of thirty-four poems opens with one including non-English words and still it somehow works.
For a strange metaphor, turn to Evelyn (Ode to My Guitar.)
For a not-love poem nicely done, turn to Hi, which is an invitation for ‘the one’ to announce herself.
For a scary piece on ‘retribution’ turn to Nemesis.
The prose poem How to Be a Lagosian plays with the reader. Turn to this piece for a good chuckle.
If you’re scrolling for the tiny carps, there might be a typo. Not unusual. Back to the good stuff.
My First Christmas is an admittedly made-up ‘memory,’ in which we find this: “But what confused me most was the red socks that hung on the walls /And the trees within the house /A botanical flaw /But I stayed awake to see the rumoured Santa clause climb down a chimney we never had.”
Santos can do social commentary, as in The World Is Not Itself, which begins by awakening the reader with this: “Historians have started prophesying /And prophets now quote history /The world is not itself anymore /Earth must now spin on Mercury’s axis /Or how well do we explain this heat?” and it goes on much farther than global warming.
Given all that, how do I come up with three stars? My personal guidelines, when doing an ‘official’ KBR review, are as follows: five stars means, roughly equal to best in genre. Rarely given. Four stars means, extremely good. Three stars means, definitely recommendable. I am a tough reviewer. I try hard to be consistent. Santos is a promising new poet, and is clearly recommended here. Your personal rating may be higher.
Kindle Book Review Team member.
(Note: this reviewer received a free copy of this book for an independent review. He is not associated with the author or Amazon.)
what follows is not part of the review but is provided for your use, or not, as you choose.
carps:
echoes:
none detected
typos:
basket of lies (lilies??) (not sure about this one)
heavens fringe (heaven’s ??)
other notes:
Not sure what a six inch complex is. To do with high heels? I’ll give you this one, it may be culturally more obvious to your readers than to me.
