Walker James’s Reviews > Still Living in Town > Status Update

Noooot digging it so far. Shoulda been a chapbook, tbh. Some of the stuff moves me, the relationship between the speaker and Tina is moving. The dissonance of living in the city but going to the farm each weekend, that culture-clash, is compelling. But damnit these poems are TOO LITERAL sometimes. I want quadruple-meanings! I want metaphor! I want my little brain cells, dumb meat as they are, to be stretch into shape