Review: "Skinny" by L.K. Maddox

Skinny by L.K. Maddox
Published July 2024
★★

A quick collection of poetry. This is part of what I think of as a subgenre of catharsis poetry—written with a lot of emotion but not necessarily much to underpin it. I'm all for people writing their angst-heavy poetry, but I struggled to distinguish between most of the poems here (until the end, when there's a shift to talking about recovery). Lots of rhyme, but without a consistent rhyme scheme; personal preference, of course, but I found a lot of the rhymes a bit forced (wording and directional choices based on what would rhyme or come close to rhyming rather than what would move the poem along) and would have preferred fewer attempts at rhyme and more imagery, metaphor, pieces to pick apart.

So nothing wrong with what's here, but not something that will stick with me.