chapbook, 23 pgs, $7, Daniel Rajala, 32-746 Richards St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 3A4, [email protected]
The thing that irks me most about this chapbook (and I say “most” because plenty of things bug me about it) is its price. Seven dollars for 23 pages? What the hell? Even though the packaging is pretty nice, seven bucks is a lot of scratch to drop. Other than that, here are a couple of other things: the poem “BLOOD” (all caps, here, people) is possibly the most annoying thing ever put to paper. The vaguely leftist slant to all of the writing, which isn’t presented in such a way as to seem clever, comes across as dull. And, finally, the dismal layout that screams: Teen Angst! (Anthony Gerace)