Don't Stay for The After Party
The After Party by Jana Prikryl is a book of poems that takes us through continents and eras. In the first half of the book, we are brought to each of these places, seeing them through Prikryl's eyes. The second half is consisted of forty poems that are related and told in the many voices of Prikryl with her style. Again, we are taken on a journey with her through the poems. This book gets 0 out of 5 stars from me because there is nothing, not even one factor that I found redeeming in this book. As a poet, I really looked forward to this book, hoping it would bring me inspiration for poems that I'm writing. The only thing it taught me was how not to write any poems. I should've known from the first poem how it was going to go. Ontario Gothic was the title, the poem...nothing to do with what I was expecting. And the stanzas were nowhere near connected with each other. I sat there sitting, wondering what it was all about. And it didn't stop there. As