Minml Poems

by Mag Gabbert

"Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and felt your skin prickling at the base of your skull-felt like somewhere, inside the blackness above you, an unknown presence was hovering-a power? A fear?" This is a chapbook collection of poems inspired by the visual minimal poems of Aram Saroyan, with a bonus essay about how we perceive the physical and spiritual world around us.

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2020

Reviews

[Courtney LeBlanc · Rating 4 out of 5]

Minml Poems is a small chapbook of poems that consist of one misspelled word. Examples being: "womn" and "implocean". I'm glad the author's note at the back explained these singular, misspelled words and while I get it, to me, it's not poetry, it doesn't evoke emotion, and it lacks the crat and skill I love in good poems. Others may enjoy this approach but it's just not my style.

[Isaac Montgomery · Rating 3 out of 5]

These poems look simple, but are really difficult to write well. Nearly every one has a fresh gimmick that makes it worth pondering.