Hail, The Chapbook Review!
In its inaugural issue, TCPBRD’s latest, Play by Mathias Svalina, gets reviewed not once, but twice. Twice!
I especially enjoy this passage:
The function of a game played by children is to socialize them, move them from childhood to adulthood with the skills necessary to live in culturally acceptable ways. The function of Svalina’s games seems to be to socialize readers to poetry. And poetry, it has always seemed to me, is a way to embrace the culturally unacceptable—the absurd, the surreal, the nonsensical, the beautiful. Everything that is not in any way useful or pragmatic. Everything that makes life good.
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