I received this for free from a Goodreads giveaway. 
 I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I like that it seems to push boundaries into a little "darker" territories, for lack of a better word, and that it doesn't shy away from topics like death, religion, racism, homophobia, or suicide. I really did appreciate most of the poems in the book that dealt with these topics. My favorite was "Missing the Mark" and I also enjoyed "On a Day Long Ago" and "New Roads". I think Poe has a talent for poetry and I felt connected to and intrigued by many of his pieces. 
 On the other hand, the prose was not my favorite. It felt more impersonal than his poetry and I had a difficult time connecting with or caring about the characters, even though I wanted to find them compelling. Ii also found the treatment of mental illness and suicide in some of the pieces to be disturbing (in a shock value way as opposed to a haunting way) and problematic. Overall, the pieces of poetry that I did enjoy did not redeem the book as a whole for me. 
 2.5/5