I tried to love it, I really did, but it was too heavily reliant on metaphor and reverse personification that some of his poems became cliche. Some of the cliches in the poem work. Some of them don't. Some of the poems are better off performed as spoken word.

As a former poet that used to use cliche a lot in my old poetry, the old me would have loved the poems in this book. But now, I'm not so sure. Perhaps poems like these are best heard through spoken delivery. Perhaps my tastes have changed. Either way, I still appreciate some poems in this book.