"With today’s ubiquitous social media and all that sharing entails, the idea of poetry that delves into the personal and utilizes actual journals would command an especially astute and unique precision — one that Stacy Szymaszek’s Journal of Ugly Sites & Other Journals deftly delivers, reminding us of the raw power of the poetic personal / personal poetic, and how uncommon poetry with this kind of depth is nowadays. Reading this book reminds me that the current Facebook-Twitter-Instagram environment is no match for the curated and hymn-phonic id, as extrapolated through an artistic lens of a writer in high command of a journal she renders and crops into a poetic-nonfiction narrative. This is not 'confessional' poetry, with all that connotes, of Plath et al. This is not even under the tired moniker of 'personal' poetry. Despite the fact that Szymaszek has indeed pulled from her journals, it does not feel like 'mining' journals 'for material.' It is something more chiseled. ..."
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