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By Victor Schwartzman, on 15-09-2008 18:50

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Breaking the Hearts of Robots
Jason “Juice” Hardung
Covert Press
24 pgs

available at www.covertpress.com

Reviewed: by Jack Henry
(Jack is our current Poet of the Month!  Check him out!)

I know Juice.
I’ve met Juice.
And have heard him read.

Like Wayne Mason, I’ve never really read Juice.

“Breaking the Hearts of Robots” is an extraordinary volume of poetry.  I have always considered Juice one of the best up and coming writers, one of those lions that’s biting at an old mans tail and this chapbook does not disappoint.

To my surprise he includes three poems that I included in Heroin Love Songs.  Of course, this honest admission will make the reader think that Jack Henry is a patsy to review this.  Well fuck you too.  If I didn’t like it, I’d tell you, and I think Juice would appreciate that.

But I like this volume.

Very much.

One of the key poems in this text is “Sometimes Hamsters Eat Their Young.”  It is an exceptional poem, filled with a strong voice and tremendous heart.  About the reflection of a lost mother as well as a childhood lost, “Hamsters” is revealing and affects any reader.

    “…my blue eyes were crying
    but not in the rain
    in the doorway of our dream…”

    “…She said she promised.
    I had a hamster once
    that had babies
    and it chewed most of their heads off.”

Amazing, stark and a damning write.

On the flip side is a reflection on fatherhood and its imprint on a child’s development.

From “Nurtured Like a Cactus in a Single Man’s Apartment.”

    “I didn’t figure out that the shower curtain goes
    on the inside of the tub
    until I lived on my own
    The floor was always wetter than me
    and I was a newborn calf
    doing splits
    every time I tried to stand on my own
    Now I just take baths”

Juice Hardung is a bright and honest writer.  After a difficult childhood and challenges with substance abuse, he has turned into a powerful voice of a new generation of writers.

I highly recommend this volume.

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a typical juice call

By: John Dorsey (Guest) on 15-09-2008 19:18

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a typical juice call

By: John Dorsey (Guest IP 72.240.124.91) on 15-09-2008 19:18

Juice is the best young writer living and working today, of course that is just one man's opinion.

 

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