Wesley Aptekar-Cassels reviewed Casual Takes by Jessica O'Brien
Casual Takes
3 stars
There are a few interesting snippets in here, but on the whole it give a uncomfortable feeling, I believe without really meaning to.
English language
Published July 20, 2022 by Lulu Press, Inc..
A collection of thoughts that may or may not be of interest to you.
Casual Takes is a whirlwind collection of sleep thoughts, personal painful mini-revelations, mildly entertaining quips, aphorisms, and tips of feelings strung together into a cohesively contradictory blur that gives importance and exposure to the wildness of the unobserved mind. Written purely as a diary in the phone notes app of the author and only later compiled into a 60-something page chapbook, Casual Takes represents a genuine insight into the intimate pre-analysis truths of a modern poet. Please don’t take it too seriously.
There are a few interesting snippets in here, but on the whole it give a uncomfortable feeling, I believe without really meaning to.