The experimental concrete poetry book tombboy by Mykyta Ryzhykh that we published earlier this year is still garnering reviews from those that are as taken by this project as we were.
Book Reviews Cafe, which was helpful to us in the past for another collection of poetry, just released another review for one of our books.
“tombboy will not be an easy book for every reader, and that is perhaps its greatest strength as well as its greatest weakness. It demands participation rather than passive reading… the collection succeeds in creating its own language—one made from words, images, silence, gaps and broken forms. Ryzhykh’s poetry is raw, unconventional and sometimes uncomfortable, but it is also imaginative and brave. tombboy is best approached not as a book that always needs to be understood, but as one that needs to be experienced. It leaves behind fragments of images and emotions, much like memories that refuse to settle into a complete story.”
Thanks again to the Book Reviews Cafe for their generous help!
