Lawrence Hall
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
Book Reviewers Promote
Freedom by Giving Orders
“Obey me and be free!”
-Number Six in the Free for All episode of The
Prisoner
The irony of the imperative in most reviews
Is to make a command that the reader must heed
Keeping in chains the literary muse:
You must read this must-read which you need to read
(now back to weaving
tapestries of this and that)
Lawrence Hall
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
Transacting Genres
A plucky heroine library spy
Paris during the German occupation
Who falls in love with a
mysterious soul
In search of life’s
meaning that winter in Madrid
An empowering iconic
game-changer
Must-read that weaves a trail-blazing
tapestry
As passion explodes across
the pages
In a forbidden path of something
or other
And like reviewers, while
all of Europe is ablaze
She sells shop-soiled
literary cliches
