Poetry For The Gaming Crowd Reviewed

Thanks to Game Girl Advance for their review of the videogame-related poetry book, 'Blue Wizard Is About To Die'. The reviewer comments: "Video games, the interactive art of corresponding actions to on screen visuals and audio cues, are inherently difficult to show. But who'd have thought that it'd be a poet from Las Vegas to finally get the feeling that goes along with video games right?" We've previously mentioned this unique book, which has an official website proclaiming that the tome "takes its readers on a psychotic and hilarious tour through the arcade and console games of the Eighties (and beyond)", and has garnered both effusive and not quite so positive reviews along the way.

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So I read some of the excerpts on the webpage...

[Snowspinner]

Wow.

Those were some truly terrible poems.

Like, they did not scan with interesting rhythm, they did not offer enlightening insights into the nature of being, or even into the nature of the games, and they were, at several points, slightly offensive.

The fact that so many gaming sites seem to be head over heels from them really heightens the lack of geekiness I sometimes feel from being a humanities person.

Oh well. I have a girlfriend, and I bet he doesn't.