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Avaricious Alphabets
“Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
Alliterative buzzing.
Cerulean downpour.
Euphonious felicity.
Avaricious Alphabets is a compilation of short, vivid poems capturing the essence of the syllabary.
The chapbook explores poetry in the wildest of ways:
an unrepeated string of letters to construct 26 distinct poems in what is an innovative and modest read.
- GenresPoetry
40 pages, Paperback
Published October 14, 2019
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October 9, 2019
“Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
Alliterative buzzing.
Cerulean downpour.
Euphonious felicity.
Avaricious Alphabets is a compilation of short, vivid poems capturing the essence of the syllabary.
The chapbook explores poetry in the wildest of ways:
an unrepeated string of letters to construct 26 distinct poems in what is an innovative and modest read.
October 14, 2019
***I received and Advanced Readers Copy in exchange for an honest review***
Avaricious Alphabets is an extremely creative collection of poems. The diction and word choice really makes each poem stand out as both a whole and all together as a collection. You can see the imagination and fun Syed had while creating each and every piece, and each thought he was attempting to convey. Each piece makes you think. Avaricious Alphabets is a chapbook like no other and stands out in its own unique way. It is worth the read! My only constructive criticism is that there were a few poems that were just a little confusing to me, but overall it is an amazing collection!
Avaricious Alphabets is an extremely creative collection of poems. The diction and word choice really makes each poem stand out as both a whole and all together as a collection. You can see the imagination and fun Syed had while creating each and every piece, and each thought he was attempting to convey. Each piece makes you think. Avaricious Alphabets is a chapbook like no other and stands out in its own unique way. It is worth the read! My only constructive criticism is that there were a few poems that were just a little confusing to me, but overall it is an amazing collection!
October 20, 2019
Avaricious Alphabets is indeed a tremendous project to take on. The effort and research gone into each poem is clearly seen. I especially loved the themed tied into each poem, which can be seen as a stand-alone or a put together as a whole. My personal favorites were C, D, H, M, and W. I enjoyed the approach to this work. It really was a type of poetry I had never witness before. Bravo!
October 16, 2019
***I received and Advanced Readers Copy in exchange for an honest review***
I was really disappointed in this book. I don't know what I expected but it was definitely not this. The book was a collection of 26 poems one for each letter of the alphabet. This could have been a good idea but the author only uses one letter per poem and they dont make any sense. It seems as though he opened a dictionary, picked a letter, then chose random words and put it on the page and called it a poem. I tried reading it several times and felt as if I were having a stroke. The lines did not make sense, and if I could give it less than 1 star I would. Skip this & call yourself lucky.
I was really disappointed in this book. I don't know what I expected but it was definitely not this. The book was a collection of 26 poems one for each letter of the alphabet. This could have been a good idea but the author only uses one letter per poem and they dont make any sense. It seems as though he opened a dictionary, picked a letter, then chose random words and put it on the page and called it a poem. I tried reading it several times and felt as if I were having a stroke. The lines did not make sense, and if I could give it less than 1 star I would. Skip this & call yourself lucky.
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