Eat Me & Other Short Poems

eat me & other short poems is a concise yet "uncategorizable" collection of poetry written by poet alexej savreux. i'm familiar with some of the poet's work and this one seems like a more restrained variation on something as chaotic and mind-bending as graffiti on the window. BUT the linguistic minimalism and poetic photography here is a landscape that resembles nothing specific but instead gives the reader a linguistic and visual and emotional landscape akin to a kind of urban philosophical paradise where poets once again grapple with real problems and tremendous ideas and notions. typical for savreux (a certifiable genius) to paint a painting that's as ambiguous as it is vivid and as emotional as it is desperate for annihilation. ultimately i give the book 3.5-4.5 stars but settled at around 3.6 or 3.7 or 3.8 but rounded to a "4" a solid and worthy collection from a poet who was a preteen and teenager when written and compiled as college student. ultimately without really signifying much but redundant ideological and intellectual denseness and indecipherable impenetrableness alexej showcases {if nothing else} an especially unusual poet suffering from an abundance of esoteric and cerebral notions

a book of ideological and intellectual denseness a poet again grappling with VERY real and complex human and philosophical issues at once looking for peace and vividness, emotionality and annihilation, alexej savreux is throwing mad linguistic photographs our way (a certifiable genius) but this book (a 3 or a 4 at most) is mostly a compendium of MUCH more concise meanderings and variations than the mind-bending graffiti on the window had to offer, and it doesn't signify anything except a hell of a lot of poetic prowess (although that's not necessarily a small achievement) and it makes for an interesting read and re-read and re-read and re-read etc etc