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wrote that the majority of the poems resemble "aborted starts to larger stories" and that nearly every verse contains "at least one awkward rhyme". The magazine concluded that the pair have "a handle on grade-school grotesquerie" and likened the book to a "kooky stranger's yearbook".
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